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: <1991Mar29.040656.2790@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1991 04:06:56 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.220537.14059@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar27.152155.27218@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> <1991Mar27.190459.9384@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar28.200952.12309@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar28.200952.12309@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) writes:
>One final question:  Will C-News accept a 4 digit YYYY field since RFC1036
>specifies a 2 digit YY field?

RFC1123 (Host Requirements, part 2) amends the date syntax description in
RFC822 -- to which RFC1036 defers -- to permit 4 digits, and strongly
encourages use of 4.  C news accepts 4 and generates 4.
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