[Tutor] Tutor Archives- dates corrupted

Jeff Shannon jeff@ccvcorp.com
Tue Dec 24 14:28:07 2002


Tony Cappellini wrote:

> Has anyone noticed the dates on the Tutor archive page ?
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/
>
> There are dates > 2002, and years back as far as 1980.


I believe that the dates on mail messages are set entirely by the 
originator.  If the person writing the message has their system clock 
set wrong, that wrong date stays with the message all the way to the 
archive.

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International