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From: dricejb@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson drilex1)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C-news rejects articles due to old dates.
Message-ID: <27207@drilex.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 03:56:32 GMT
References: <1991May3.173007.21900@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: DRI/McGraw-Hill, Lexington, MA
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In article <1991May3.173007.21900@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>
> Hey, you folks with PCs.  Either learn to set the time when you turn on
>your machine, or buy a battery backed up clock, or configure your email
>software to not include a 'Date:' header.
>
>	From: JBECK@bmgtmail.umd.EDU
>	Message-ID: <9105021257.AA29966@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
>	Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
>	
>	From: ERIK@brock1p.BITNET (Erik L Seielstad)
>	Message-ID: <9105021311.AA10920@Early-Bird.Think.COM>
>	Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

Three notes:

1. Any serious sufferer of the PC would know that PCs start time at
Jan 1, 1980.

2. All IBM PCs since the AT (1984) have come with a battery-backed up
clock.  Clones have generally followed IBM practice.  Of course, batteries
eventually run down.

3. One of those addresses is Bitnet.  Bitnet is built on IBM's protocol
NJE (basically).  I'd love to learn of an implementation of NJE for the PC.
-- 
Craig Jackson
dricejb@drilex.dri.mgh.com
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