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: <1991Mar27.185851.9247@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 18:58:51 GMT
References: <9ICP05C@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> <1991Mar24.220537.14059@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar27.152155.27218@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> <1991Mar27.165259.28073@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar27.165259.28073@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) writes:
>I just noticed that C-News itself does not generate RFC822/1036 compliant dates
>because it uses the form:
>
>	Wdy Mon DD HH:MM:SS YYYY
>
>at least that is what's in the Date: field of several articles I just posted.

I think you may need to investigate your copy of C News, because that's not
what it's supposed to be supplying, if it's current.  The current version
will even try to canonicalize a date supplied by the news reader/poster.
No way will you get a date out of it that doesn't at least have a comma
in it, even if your "date" command is producing some totally weird output,
and if "date" is producing normal format, you should get a timezone too.
-- 
"[Some people] positively *wish* to     | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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