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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
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Date: 1 Dec 89 15:37:29 GMT
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Several people have pointed out that my proposal was flawed; the right
thing to do is
	14 Nov 89 16:30:44 -0800
where the date is the LOCAL time.  If the offset is missing, it's GMT.

On systems where this breaks getdate,  you'll have to elide anything past
the time.  That's a problem.

The other problem is that this is probably not backwards compatable.  I
suspect it'll have to be an X-Local-Date: until we have a flag day,
which I don't see happening.  There's too much news software out there
that wouldn't cope if we just did it.
	- Brian