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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: <1991Mar28.200952.12309@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 28 Mar 91 20:09:52 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.220537.14059@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar27.152155.27218@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> <1991Mar27.190459.9384@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
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In article <1991Mar27.190459.9384@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1991Mar27.152155.27218@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) writes:
>>The following date is unparsable according to Cnews patch 24Mar91:
>>
>>Mon Mar 25 20:40:20 1991 MET +0100
>
>This is not a valid RFC1036 date because it is neither ctime(3) format
>(which 1036 encourages you to accept for backward compatibility) nor
>RFC 822 format.  You can't specify both an alphabetic timezone and
>a numeric timezone; it has to be one or the other.
>
>>"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"?
>
>The quoted phrase refers to ctime(3) format, which this date isn't.
>
>However, your conclusion -- that C News will not tolerate this date --
>is correct.

Thank you for the info, I've passed it on to the author of the offending
news software, W-News.  He has a real incentive to fix it quick since I
transfer news to and from him and quite a few sites behind him in Europe.
All articles generated from theses sites using W-News are being dropped on
the floor here.

One final question:  Will C-News accept a 4 digit YYYY field since RFC1036
specifies a 2 digit YY field?
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