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From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
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Subject: Re: Changes to CNEWS date parsing - what is now l
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Date: 26 Jun 91 13:27:51 GMT
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In article <24JUN199116325508@carat.arizona.edu> jms@carat.arizona.edu writes:
>HOWEVER, I'm looking at an August 1990 draft of the new NNTP spec, and it
>says:
>
>"Date and time now use ISO 3307 format, but for backward compatibility
>the prior MMDDYY HHMMSS format may still be accepted.  Dates and
>times are always in GMT."

If you read carfully, you note that this has nothing to do with the Date:
field in news or mail. It has to do with an arguement to the NEWNEWS command.

Therefore, there is no conflict.
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