Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.220537.14059@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 22:05:37 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.035259.20738@zoo.toronto.edu> <9ICP05C@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <9ICP05C@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> admin@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de writes:
>>The contents of the Date header must be
>>a legal, unambiguous date and must not deviate too far from the format
>>recommended in RFC1036...
>
>Oh...I'm afraid there will be *much* trouble with worldwide news in the
>near future...

I don't think so.  We've checked the new stuff against existing news; only
a bare handful of legitimate dates fail to pass it.  Virtually everybody is
doing the right thing and supplying dates in RFC1036 format, and even the
timezones usually aren't too messed-up.
-- 
"[Some people] positively *wish* to     | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
believe ill of the modern world."-R.Peto|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry