Newsgroups: tor.news
Path: utzoo!lsuc!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg Woods)
Subject: Re: Long message IDs (was Re: attcan't?)
Message-ID: <1989May13.144700.3912@eci386.uucp>
Summary: sysV compatible date(1)
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
References: <1394@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> <610787517.10071@ontmoh.UUCP> <1396@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Date: Sat, 13 May 89 14:47:00 GMT

In article <1396@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn) writes:
> Yeah, I mean like that.  Ok, so it's possible to do this with date and expr
> too, using the perfect example of an expr contortion above :-)  But this 
> still may not be OK in a general purpose News distribution, as all 
> implementations of date(1) do not support the format string concept.

Ah ha!  But there's at least one "free" version of date(1) that
does support the SysV format strings.  I believe it was packaged
with the recent timezone/ctime stuff.
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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