[FFML] Old archives question

[Rens Houben]

In other news for Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 05:53:11PM +0200, Ignacio Moreno has been seen typing:
> I am not an expert in archive or mailing lists, but I think that it's
> clearly an error. Probably the program couldn't read or misread a variable
> and, when trying to interpret it, it give a nonsense date.

All unices internally measure time as seconds-since-Epoch, which is
categorized as midnight on Jan 1st 1970. Presumably, whatever script was
used to import the email data into archives couldn't quite make out the
timestamp on those mails and defaulted to zero.

> Greetings.

> Kinai.

My $0.02 as a systems administrator that's had to parse some /weird/
errors from time to time...

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