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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: c-news: Date: too far in the future???
Message-ID: <XGK_D2#@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 91 00:26:53 GMT
References: <1991Mar29.151419.8855@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Widener CS Dept
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In <1991Mar29.151419.8855@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>, alden@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>
>Ok - where did I blow it?  :-)  I installed the latest patches for C-News
>and all of a sudden I dropped ~250 articles last night, ie:
>
>Mar 29 01:54:43.684 uwm.edu - <BE1FF49A4E6000BD@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU> Date: too
>far in the future: `29 Mar 91 04:35:00 GMT'
>
>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?

    I had the same problem (~400 out of 8000+); so I decided for the
   time being to just take out the offending test. (Posts made 4 or 5
   minutes before I got it were dying, so I figured something had to
   be fudged.)

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*** relay/procart.c.~1~	Mon Mar 25 13:10:22 1991
--- relay/procart.c	Tue Mar 26 16:06:11 1991
***************
*** 346,356 ****
  	} else if ((date = getindate(hdrs->h_date, (struct timeb *)NULL)) == -1) {
  		prefuse(art);
  		(void) printf("unparsable Date: `%s'\n", hdrs->h_date);
! 	} else if (date > now + CLOCKSLOP) {
  		prefuse(art);
  		(void) printf("Date: too far in the future: `%s'\n",
  			hdrs->h_date);
! 	} else if (staledays > 0 && date < datestale) {
  		prefuse(art);
  		(void) printf("older than %d days\n", staledays);
  	} else if (hopcount(hdrs->h_path) > 0 &&
--- 346,356 ----
  	} else if ((date = getindate(hdrs->h_date, (struct timeb *)NULL)) == -1) {
  		prefuse(art);
  		(void) printf("unparsable Date: `%s'\n", hdrs->h_date);
! /*	} else if (date > now + CLOCKSLOP) {
  		prefuse(art);
  		(void) printf("Date: too far in the future: `%s'\n",
  			hdrs->h_date);
! */	} else if (staledays > 0 && date < datestale) {
  		prefuse(art);
  		(void) printf("older than %d days\n", staledays);
  	} else if (hopcount(hdrs->h_path) > 0 &&

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