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From: denny@mcmi.uucp (Denny Page)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Format of "Expires: " header?
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.202042.6196@mcmi.uucp>
Date: 12 Oct 89 20:20:42 GMT
References: <4036@phri.UUCP> <1989Oct10.163529.5403@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Denny Page)
Organization: MCMI, Omaha, NE
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>|Expires: 11/10/89
>>	It was always my understanding that the proper "Expires: " format is
>>as in the second example.  Is the first (mm/dd/yy) also legal?
>
>In practice, most anything that getdate() will understand is a reasonable
>choice.  In theory, it ought to conform to RFC822 as well, which the first
>format does not.  Use of the first format is a dumb idea for another reason
>too:  it's ambiguous.  (US custom puts month first, British custom puts
>day first.)

Being the guilty party here...

The reason that these have been showing up in news.announce.conferences
since late July is mcmi's switch to C news.  C news (via inews) does not
edit the Expires header as B news did, which my shell scripts depend on.
To be quite honest, I hadn't noticed this until Roy pointer it out.  I
will fix this when I have a chance - I've been meaning to re-write my
scripts in perl anyway.
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