Re: Form Mail replacement

Well now, that would require just a tad more thought now wouldn't it.

What time is it? When is it?

Thanks, I'll put it up as 1.3.2 now.

Happy new year.
John Romano


----- Original Message -----
From: Mailing List Account <ml(at)digitaldaze.com>
To: John Romano <jromano(at)pb.net>
Cc: <ml(at)digitaldaze.com>; Susan Bishop <susan(at)angara.com>; HWG Servers-List
<hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Form Mail replacement


> Actually,
>
> You would really want something like:
>
>                 #Y2K Fix
>                 $tl[5] = substr($tl[5]+1900,2,2);
>
> This will give you the correct two digit year for all years between 1900
> and 9999.
>
> 1900 = 00
> 1999 = 99
> 2000 = 00
> 2001 = 01
> 2100 = 00
> 9999 = 99
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, John Romano wrote:
>
> > Hmm.  Thanks for the heads up.  I'll send a copy of this over to Joey.
> >
> > Quick and dirty two line fix....  Which should work till 2200. Unless 4
> > digit years is what we want... but I don't think we want them since the
> > world is trying so hard to be 2 digit year compatible.  If 100 year old
mail
> > comes through... get a new pony.
> >
> >       unless ($NO_TIME) {
> >                 @tl = localtime(time());
> >                 ++$tl[4]; # Add one to the months
> >                 # Add a leading '0' onto the times
> >                 $tl[0] = "0$tl[0]" if ($tl[0] < 10);
> >                 $tl[1] = "0$tl[1]" if ($tl[1] < 10);
> >                 $tl[2] = "0$tl[2]" if ($tl[2] < 10);
> >
> >                 #Y2K Fix
> >                 $tl[5] = $tl[5]-100 if ($tl[5] > 99);
> >                 $tl[5] = "0$tl[5]" if ($tl[5] < 10);
> >
> >                 # Makeup time string
> >                 $timestr = "$tl[4]/$tl[3]/$tl[5] $tl[2]:$tl[1]:$tl[0]";
> >                 send (SOCKFL,"Date: $timestr\n",0);
> >         }
> >
> >
> > John Romano
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mailing List Account <ml(at)digitaldaze.com>
> > To: John Romano <jromano(at)pb.net>
> > Cc: Susan Bishop <susan(at)angara.com>; HWG Servers-List
<hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 5:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: Form Mail replacement
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > > He worked on it for a while, then decided a full re-write was
necessary.
> > > > This is what he came up with;
> > > >
> > > > http://www.glass-castle.com/joeyform
> > > >
> > > > It works based on the usual hidden input types, has ip/domain
security
> > and
> > > > requires cgi-lib.pl.  I don't believe it has a problem with date
> > creation.
> > > > I checked the code and it appears that it'll make a "xx/xx/00" date.
I
> > think
> > > > it's system dependant, as most apps are.
> > >
> > > On January 1, 2000, the joeyform.pl script will return a date of
01/01/100
> > > On January 1, 2001, the joeyform.pl script will return a date of
01/01/200
> > >
> > > You should let your friend know about this.  The year value returned
by
> > > localtime is the current year - 1900 (or number of years after 1900).
The
> > > year 2000 is then 2000 - 1900 = 100.
> > >
> > > This is the same problem the formmail.pl script has and is quite
common if
> > > you don't read the docs on localtime very carefully.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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