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From: news@etive.ed.ac.uk (Network News)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problem with expire
Keywords: expire
Message-ID: <867@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Oct 88 10:25:23 GMT
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In article <542@dms.UUCP> morris@dms.UUCP (Jim Morris) writes:
%Can anyone tell me why I get the following error message fairly frequently:
%	expire: Unparsable date "31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT"
%when expire runs.

On my machine if you pass the numerical date -1 to ctime it produces
this date string (date 0 on Unix is Jan 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT). I don't
know where the bug is though, or what the fix is.

Scott Larnach