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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b
Subject: Re: British Summer Time (and 2.10.3)
Message-ID: <985@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 13:13:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  8 13:13:02 1985
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> In article <192@dcl-cs.UUCP> stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
> >Some news sites in the U.K. put the string "BST" in their date fields.
> >This causes problems as the "getdate()" routine doesn't recognise "BST".
> >The recommended fix, meanwhile, is to use "GMT".
> On the contrary the recommended fix is the one posted by Cathy Garlic a while
> back.   Recommended here means it is the one I'll be using so it will be
> on the same tape as the next UKUUCP release (Xmas time).
> 
> Whilst in the area any news on 2.10.3 or even the semi-mythical 2.11?

Getdate() was originally written to conform with RFC733, the then-current
ARPAnet mail standard.  It used "BST" as "Bering Standard Time".  RFC822
dropped BST, but getdate() has never been fully upgraded.  Although any
fixes should be installed, the best solution for an international network
is to use GMT; it's unambiguous, and makes it easy for a receiving site to
display the date in local time.