Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi Ian, everyone,
Finally a moment to read the other comments here.
 Am I correct in understanding that the cookie that should be accepted has 
a latter time than 2038, meaning it is being rejected perhaps creating 
part of the issue?  I did note that  the audio challenge is not working 
and that even when properly solved the error still happens.
I am reconnecting with Amazon  this evening, so wish confirmation that I 
can  share this discussion, and that my  understanding is correct?
Thanks,
Karen


On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, Ian Collier wrote:

> The year-2038 bug in Lynx appears to be in src/parsdate.y where it says:
>
>    /* See the LeapYears table in Convert. */
> #define EPOCH           1970
> #define END_OF_TIME     2038
>
> So interestingly it will accept 31-dec-2038 even though that's after
> 32-bit day, but it does not acknowledge any year >2038.
>
> This source file also contains a list of all leap years between the Epoch
> and the 'End of time':
>
>    static const int LeapYears[] =
>    {
>        1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996,
>        2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036
>    };
>
> I haven't really tried to parse the code in this function, but it seems
> to me that most of the arithmetic could be done by mktime(3) these days.
>
> imc
>
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