I Got A Hotmail Message Dated Saturday,April 24, 1999!

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Here's the date line:

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 21:07:43 -0500

Maybe I'm going to be like the guy on TV who lives in the future. Message to all people now living in the future: Please send e-mail of closing price on all Dow Industrial as of Sept. 30, 1999.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), April 12, 1999

Answers

Puddintame,

A few months ago I set my PC's date to 2009 too see if any odd side effects occurred. It did cause the dates on my outgoing email to be wrong, but it didn't do anything to the DJIA. :-)

Jerry

-- Jerry B (skeptic76@erols.com), April 12, 1999.


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