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+ <H1>[IRCServices] Re: DALnet-src: Y2K bug in the ircd (dreamforge and below)</H1>
+ <B>Andrew Church</B>
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+ TITLE="[IRCServices] Re: DALnet-src: Y2K bug in the ircd (dreamforge and below)">achurch at dragonfire.net
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+ <I>Mon Jan 3 11:24:21 PST 2000</I>
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+<PRE>>><i> Well my bug is in the date() function (s_misc.c), where the reply string
+</I>>><i> is generated:
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+</I>>><i> (void)sprintf(buf, "%s %s %d 19%02d -- %02d:%02d %c%02d:%02d",
+</I>>><i> weekdays[lt->tm_wday], months[lt->tm_mon],lt->tm_mday,
+</I>>><i> lt->tm_year, lt->tm_hour, lt->tm_min,
+</I>>><i> plus, minswest/60, minswest%60);
+</I>>><i>
+</I>>><i> The "19", for the centuary, is hardcoded.
+</I>
+<rant>
+ Is it just me, or is this so completely braindead it's not even funny?
+Even assuming this is left over from the original ircd, that's still
+post-1990 code, and it would have taken some major guts (or stupidity) to
+assume that that code would no longer be in use by 2000. It doesn't even
+take any extra effort to write "%04d" and "lt->tm_year+1900" instead.
+
+ _This_ is why programming should be left to experts.
+</rant>
+
+ --Andrew Church
+ <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">achurch at dragonfire.net</A>
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