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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.021535.17138@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 28 Mar 91 02:15:35 GMT
References: <9ICP05C@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> <1991Mar24.220537.14059@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar27.152155.27218@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mi
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>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.

possible danger ahead!
for example ISC, which has support for international stuff, enables you
to modify date's output with files in /lib/cftype/. that means here
date may put out stuff like

Dienstag, der 3. Maerz 1991 (13:00:00)

which is very convenient for german users. it sure has a comma, but thats
just for fun. i haven't investigated this further, yet, but i think
i'd mention it.
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