Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews and long message-ids
Message-ID: <1989Jun20.212120.7896@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <614318400.11519@telly.on.ca>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 21:21:20 GMT

In article <614318400.11519@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>d=`date`
>gdat=`$NEWSBIN/getdate "$d"`

This is actually unnecessarily roundabout.  Try

	gdat=`getdate now`

which is used elsewhere in C News.
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