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From: jef@max.ee.lbl.gov (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
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Date: 3 Dec 89 01:47:38 GMT
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In the referenced message, jthomp@texsun.Central.Sun.COM (Jim Thompson ) wrote:
}on a common format, its quite easy to generate an 'in-order' list
}of articles (not much less with the +/- HHMM format, true, but
}that breaks the code.)

Breaks what code?  getdate() handles it just fine.  To what are you
referring?

Tell ya what, I'll forge this article so that its Date: is in the
proposed format.  Anyone who has software that actually breaks on
this article, please speak up.
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Jef

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