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From: jms@carat.arizona.edu (Joel M. Snyder)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Changes to CNEWS date parsing - what is now legal?
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Date: 22 Jun 91 06:01:23 GMT
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I hesitate to jump into this fray, but... I'm the maintainer of a 
news reader (Vnews for VAX/VMS), and I can see the smoke of this
issue from a mile away.  However, the fire seems to have escaped
me.  Can someone summarize the date/time formats which are now considered
legal by C-News?  

The format of the date normally supplied by VNEWS would be, for this
message:

	21 JUN 91 23:01:23 

I interpret this to be incorrect, since RFC-822 seems to imply that
JUN needs to be Jun and one MUST have a time zone.  

So: how strictly is C-News going to hold me to RFC-822?  More
generally, "what are the new rules?"

Thanks for any help,

jms

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