Re: [Sheflug] Re: System dates

[Richard Balthazor <R.Balthazor [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Jonathan wrote:
> I keep receiving emails dated 1st Jan, 1970. I thought it was something 
> spam related, but I've seen the odd genuine email dated similarly. I'm 
> wondering if it's an assumed value in the case of invalid date headers. 


"Unix time" is a timer that counts up in seconds from Jan 1st, 1970, and
is very popular for recording timestamps because makes it very easy for a
program to tell elapsed times, time differences, etc.   So I'd guess that
your invalid date headers are missing a timestamp and have defaulted to 0.

R.


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