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  14    <H1>[IRCServices] Re: DALnet-src: Y2K bug in the ircd (dreamforge and below)</H1>
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  19     <I>Sun Jan  2 10:56:42 PST 2000</I>
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  34 <PRE>In a message dated 1/2/00 9:46:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
  35 <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">andrewk at icon.co.za</A> writes:
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  37 &gt;<i> Well my bug is in the date() function (s_misc.c), where the reply string
  38 </I>&gt;<i>  is generated:
  39 </I>&gt;<i>
  40 </I>&gt;<i>          (void)sprintf(buf, &quot;%s %s %d 19%02d -- %02d:%02d %c%02d:%02d&quot;,
  41 </I>&gt;<i>                  weekdays[lt-&gt;tm_wday], months[lt-&gt;tm_mon],lt-&gt;tm_mday,
  42 </I>&gt;<i>                  lt-&gt;tm_year, lt-&gt;tm_hour, lt-&gt;tm_min,
  43 </I>&gt;<i>                  plus, minswest/60, minswest%60);
  44 </I>&gt;<i>
  45 </I>&gt;<i>  The &quot;19&quot;, for the centuary, is hardcoded.
  46 </I>&gt;<i>
  47 </I>&gt;<i>  After a very brief check, it looks like date() is only used by m_time().
  48 </I>&gt;<i>
  49 </I>&gt;<i>  Andrew
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  51           (void)sprintf(buf, &quot;%s %s %d %04d -- %02d:%02d %c%02d:%02d&quot;,
  52                   weekdays[lt-&gt;tm_wday], months[lt-&gt;tm_mon],lt-&gt;tm_mday,
  53                   lt-&gt;tm_year + 1900 , lt-&gt;tm_hour, lt-&gt;tm_min,
  54                   plus, minswest/60, minswest%60);
  55
  56 I simply took out the 19 and changed the formatting to %04d, then added
  57 1900 to the year.  I'm guessing this is going to affect a lot of people using
  58 services who are using dalnet-compatable ircds. I wrote a little patch
  59 yesterday for some server admins who wanted to fix the bug without
  60 messing in their source code.
  61 You can find it and instructions on applying it at
  62 <A HREF="http://www.mystical.net/~services/ircd/">http://www.mystical.net/~services/ircd/</A>
  63
  64 -- bstu
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