I'll be just as surprised as you are if you find any.  I wasn't expecting
this one, to be truthful.  It's the only place I know of where the year is
statically defined anywhere in LISTSERV, and as noted, we're going to
change that.

Nathan

At 11:39 AM 1/5/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Any other Y2K+4 type surprises we might need to know about?
>
>~Jos~
>
>Nathan Brindle wrote:
>>At 11:32 AM 1/5/2004 -0500, Mark Berman wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'm running Listserv 1.8e on Tru-64 Unix. On the Changelog reports page
>>>the date range
>>>allows 1997 thru 2003, no allowance for 2004. Do I need to do anything to
>>>let us run reports
>>>for this year?
>>>
>>>  - Mark
>>
>>
>>The problem is that these values are currently not generated
>>automatically.  Here is development's take on why it is like that:
>>
>>>Some maintainers would rather not have users request reports that go too
>>>far back, so we left it up to them to decide which years should appear in
>>>the drop-down. It is still possible to specify any year in the URL
>>>itself,
>>>though, so it's just a deterrent. The LOG-MAIN template is the one to
>>>edit.
>>
>>
>>There is a plan to change this to an auto-generated value in a future
>>update, but in the meantime, as noted, you can add entries for 2004 by
>>editing LOG-MAIN.  Simply go to the server management section in the web
>>interface, choose "Customize site-wide dynamic web templates", then choose
>>LOG-MAIN from the dropdown list.  You'll see an area that looks like this:
>>
>>       <select name="a">
>>         <option value="1997" &+SEL_a1997;>1997
>>         <option value="1998" &+SEL_a1998;>1998
>>         <option value="1999" &+SEL_a1999;>1999
>>         <option value="2000" &+SEL_a2000;>2000
>>         <option value="2001" &+SEL_a2001;>2001
>>         <option value="2002" &+SEL_a2002;>2002
>>         <option value="2003" &+SEL_a2003;>2003
>>       </select>
>>
>>and later on,
>>
>>       <select name="A">
>>         <option value="1997" &+SEL_A1997;>1997
>>         <option value="1998" &+SEL_A1998;>1998
>>         <option value="1999" &+SEL_A1999;>1999
>>         <option value="2000" &+SEL_A2000;>2000
>>         <option value="2001" &+SEL_A2001;>2001
>>         <option value="2002" &+SEL_A2002;>2002
>>         <option value="2003" &+SEL_A2003;>2003
>>       </select>
>>
>>Just add the appropriate option tag for 2004 in each spot (note:
>>case-sensitive!) and click Update.  That will give you a 2004 option where
>>required.
>>
>>Nathan