[plug] kmail and the gigasecond bug

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Bret Busby wrote:

>
>
> The value returned by
> perl -e 'print scalar localtime(999877665) . "\n"'
> is
> Sun Sep 9 09:46:40 2001.

Thats is wrong.
~$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime (999877665) . "\n"'
Fri Sep  7 23:47:45 2001
~$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1000000000) . "\n"'
Sun Sep  9 09:46:40 2001

Check your clock and timezone settings.

> I sent a test message a couple of minutes ago;

<snip>

> The gigasecond bug appears to not impact on kmail v1.0.29.

Great.  I don't think you can assume that untill you loacte the cause of your
time problems, see above.


Yours Tony.

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