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.
Yes, the epoch. I'm using qmail though and it normally adds date headers
when it can't find any so it must be somewhere previous to my system, I
guess.