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From: heiko@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Heiko Schlichting)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches
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Date: 24 Mar 91 18:06:54 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>The current set of C News patches, the third of which will probably appear
>tonight, drastically tightens up legality checking on headers.  
[...]
>The contents of the Date header must be
>a legal, unambiguous date and must not deviate too far from the format
>recommended in RFC1036; in particular, obscenities like "11/12/91" are
>outlawed.  The date can't be too far in the future; there is currently a
>special one-day dispensation for the benefit of those whose software
>gives local time but attaches "GMT" to it, but this is strictly temporary.

Oh...I'm afraid there will be *much* trouble with worldwide news in the
near future. Is this new "feature" tested in Europe and with a lot of
timezones? Is it testet with news from GMT-12 to GMT+12 and GMT-23 
to T23-1D23 (used in AIX 3.1)?
What about the European timezones "MET", "MEZ", "MESZ"... ?
It is not nice to forget Europe (and most of the other timezones outside
USA) in the RFC and I hope Cnews is still more international.

I hope the news Cnews is beta-tested in Europe...

Bye, Heiko.
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