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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Dates in news headings
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Date: Thu, 24-May-84 23:34:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 23:34:01 1984
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I noticed the fact that readnews sometimes shows a full date and
sometimes just a day of the week back when I first started reading news.
I never asked anyone about it, but I have always assumed that it only
showed the full date if it was posted within the previous week.  Thus,
"Thu" means "this past Thursday".  I like this idea, because it mimics
the way I think about dates.  Unfortunately, I don't think vnews, which
I use now, does this; it always shows the full date.
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			Barry Margolin
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