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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Subject: Re: c-news: Date: too far in the future???
Message-ID: <HHK_Q8#@cs.widener.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 00:52:55 GMT
Organization: Widener CS Dept
References: <1991Mar29.151419.8855@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> <XGK_D2#@cs.widener.edu>
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In <XGK_D2#@cs.widener.edu>, I wrote:
>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'
>
>    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.)

  That's what I get for responding right away .. it turns out that the
 problem is with Dave Alden's relaynews patch -- since it's running
 as a daemon, 'now' [in the (date > now + CLOCKSLOP) test] remains the
 same, so after a day things start getting interesting. He's in the
 process of patching it now.

-- 
     Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu
  Widener University in Chester, PA                A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone
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