156395 - mail shows malformed date - "1/12/1904 3:16 PM" as "2/17/2040 11:44 PM"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 127261

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[john w]

Re: Mozilla 1.1a Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a)
Gecko/20020611 {Build ID: 2002061104}

Mail inbox show date of this message as "2/17/2040 11:44 PM", when it should
probably be: 1/12/1904 3:16 PM"

Btw, Netscape Communicator 4.79 show the date for the same message in the inbox
as "12/31/1969 7:00 PM".

-------- Original Message --------
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from idoc.state.id.us (idoc.state.id.us [164.165.71.1]) by
mx2.iviewer.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) with SMTP id g5E5mVR16008 for
<[e-mail]>; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:48:32 -0400
Received: from 164.165.209.150 by idoc.state.id.us with SMTP (QuickMail Pro
Server for MacOS 1.1.2b2); 13-Jun-2002 23:48:25 +0000
User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1904 15:16:39 -0700
Subject: idaho.info?
From: Georgia Smith <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

"1/12/1904 3:16 PM" is out of range for the OS date-conversion functions on
Windows; these overflow and return a date of 2/17/2040 11:44 PM" (which is the
original date plus 2^32 ticks).

Comment 2

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127261 ***