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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Time Zones -- help me out
Message-ID: <7273@ogicse.ogc.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 19:11:23 GMT
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Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <1990Feb12.181547.27427@talos.uu.net> kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu writes:
} Barton E. Schaefer writes:
}  >      *   day_number month_name year_number time timezone ...
}  > 
}  > 	5 Feb 1990 14:05:57 PST
}  > 	5 Feb 1990 14:05:57 -0800
}  > 	5 Feb 1990 14:05 PST
} 
} None of these are RFC 822 complaint because the year number is supposed
} to only have two digits.

Typo, my apologies.  You'll find that mush actually does use only 2 digits
whenever it creates such a date.  It will, however, accept either 2 or 4
digits when parsing it, which is part of the reason I mistyped here.

} I think you're working too hard with these date formats.  At some point
} you've got to blow off all these nonstandard variants and just stick with the
} standard.  You're going to be old and gray with all but six marbles gone
} before you manage to grok all the wierd date formats out there.

Undoubtedly, but I think we should at least try to do a better job with
the several that we already grok.
-- 
Bart Schaefer          "February.  The hangnail on the big toe of the year."
                                                                    -- Duffy

schaefer@cse.ogi.edu (used to be cse.ogc.edu)