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From: kaufman@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Kaufman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: expire: Unparsable date "31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT"
Message-ID: <2196@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 23:48:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  3 23:48:38 1987
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In article <1187@vu-vlsi.UUCP> perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Rick Perry) writes:
.Ever since I applied patches 9 though 11 I've been getting several of these
.error messages:

.	expire: Unparsable date "31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT"

.every time expire is run.  Anyone else have this problem and/or know the cure?
.I searched all the articles here and that Date itself does not appear in any.
.We are running OSx4.0 on a Pyramid 90x.

I don't know what's causing the problem, but it may help you to know that
that is the date corresponding to time = '-1', since the UNIX epoch for
time is 1 Jan 70 00:00:00 (time == 0)

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Shasta.stanford.edu)