[LI] Mutt not Y2k compliant :.-(

[Manoj Victor Mathew <mvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is a portion my Mutt index.

  81     Jan 10 2000 17:34  Ramakrishnan M       ( 0.9K)   >
  82     Jan 09 2000 20:42  Shanker Balan        ( 2.2K)     >
  83     Feb 16 2036 23:55  bobby p rajan        ( 0.7K) mounting NTFSpartitions
  84     Jan 09 2000 20:14  Shanker Balan        ( 0.7K) >

As you see mail no. 83, has been sent on Feb 16 2036. Here is the date
as it appears on the Date: header of mail 83.

Date: 10 Jan 00 04:57:31 MST

So what does that mean? Mutt thinks  10 Jan 00  is  Feb 16 2036 :-(
I did try editing a valid mail (with 4 digit year) and made its date
2 digit year. Mutt immediately said the mail was dated Feb 16 ...

So far I have seen only USANET web-mailer, sending out 2 digit dates.


Workaround? If I change 'index_format' to show the time when mail was
received by me, then everything is Ok. But then, the index obviously
will not show the time when mail was sent (which I need very much).

Any other suggestions? Or patches?

TIA.
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