Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches Message-ID: <1991Mar27.191831.6907@robobar.co.uk> Date: 27 Mar 91 19:18:31 GMT References: <1991Mar24.035259.20738@zoo.toronto.edu> <9ICP05C@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> <1991Mar24.220537.14059@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 21 henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > 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. Are you sure that your test is valid ? Heiko's fears are related to European news. I suspect that by the time most of it has gone through the European backbones + UUNET to reach Canada, the Date: field has probably been rewritten in terms of GMT by 2.11, which is what the backbones tend to run, no ? -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)