X400: Incorrect Date on Message Sent Through X.400 Gateway

ID: Q192084

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400, version 3.2

SYMPTOMS

When you send a message through the Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms:

When you view the message in a Microsoft Mail for PC Networks client, the date on the message may appear incorrectly. This problem also occurs if the MS Mail (PC) postoffice returns the message because it cannot be delivered, and then you view the returned message in an MS Mail (PC) client. For example, if the message is sent on January 1, 2000, the date appears as "a 700:00 relative to GMT" (without quotation marks) instead of "Jan 01 1:00:00 2000 -08:00 relative to GMT."

When you view the date on the message in the Inbox, the date may appear incorrectly. For example, if the message is sent on January 1, 2000, the date appears as "12/10/09" (without quotation marks) instead of "1/1/00."

This problem is not likely to occur before the year 2000.

CAUSE

The Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400 does not properly convert two-digit years to four digits for the year 2000.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the following fix.

This fix should have the following time stamp:

X400gate.exe 7/23/98 4:18p 516,884 bytes (version 3.2.24)

This hotfix has been posted to the following Internet location as X400gy2k.exe:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/mail/pcmail-public/all-y2k/

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400 version 3.2. A supported fix is now available, but has not been fully regression-tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem. Contact Microsoft Product Support Services for more information.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kb2000 MailGWX400
Version : MS-DOS:3.2
Platform : MS-DOS
Issue type : kbbug