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From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.152155.27218@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 27 Mar 91 15:21:55 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.035259.20738@zoo.toronto.edu> <9ICP05C@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> <1991Mar24.220537.14059@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991Mar24.220537.14059@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.

Well I think I've got a problem with one of my leaf sites then.  The following
date is unparsable according to Cnews patch 24Mar91:

Mon Mar 25 20:40:20 1991 MET +0100

According to RFC1036 2.1.2  Date

this date "is not acceptable because it is not a valid RFC-822 date.  However,
since older software still generates this format, news implementations are
encouraged to accept this format and translate it into an acceptable format."

Am I correct in assuming that C-News will no longer tolerate this "sin"?  If
so I will inform this site to correct his software which is probably a good
idea in any event.
>-- 
>"[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


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