Newsgroups: news.software.b
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews and old news
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.153234.26911@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <26675@mimsy.umd.edu> <1990Sep23.042833.24834@zoo.toronto.edu> <Fvrnzd92@cs.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 15:32:34 GMT

In article <Fvrnzd92@cs.psu.edu> flee@dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
>>The trouble is that getdate() is relatively costly
>
>How about adding a "Machine-Readable-Date:" header in Unix time or
>network time?  Would it be worth it even if only a few sites added
>such a field?

Any header change for this would take years to have real impact, I'm
afraid.  There is too much inertia in the net.
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