* utilvfs.c (is_year): The range of valid year numbers is

restricted to 1970 .. 2015 to reduce the number of parsing
	errors.

vfs/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-01-27  Roland Illig  <roland.illig@gmx.de>
+
+	* utilvfs.c (is_year): The range of valid year numbers is
+	restricted to 1970 .. 2015 to reduce the number of parsing
+	errors.
+
 2006-01-25  Jindrich Makovicka  <makovick@kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz>
 
 	* xdirentry.h (LS_LINEAR_PREOPEN): New macro definition.

vfs/utilvfs.c

@@ -399,7 +399,11 @@ is_year (char *str, struct tm *tim)
     if (sscanf (str, "%ld", &year) != 1)
 	return 0;
 
-    if (year < 1900 || year > 3000)
+    /* The range of valid year numbers is quite restricted in order to
+     * reduce the number of parsing errors due to filenames starting
+     * with a four-digit string and a space.
+     */
+    if (!(1970 <= year && year <= 2015))
 	return 0;
 
     tim->tm_year = (int) (year - 1900);