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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: c-news: Date: too far in the future???
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.224811.29654@world.std.com>
Date: 29 Mar 91 22:48:11 GMT
References: <1991Mar29.151419.8855@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Software Tool and Die Netnews Research Center
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alden@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Dave Alden) writes:
>Now I'm 5 hours behind GMT, which means this message is "perfectly legal"
>in regards to when it was posted and when I got it.  I thought c news was
>supposed to accept articles with a date up to one day in advance?  Did I
>blow something in the config?

Hmmm, I'm not quite sure what the problem is here, but relaynews notes the
current time when it processes the first article and uses that as its notion
of "now".  An *extremely* long-running relaynews (i.e. one that ran for
several hours) could run into trouble.  This is extremely unlikely given the
software as distributed, but ghod only knows what people get up to...
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Geoff Collyer		world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff