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In article <FMHxso.4pG@dangl.demon.co.uk>, Dan Glover
<dan@dangl.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <19991209.185143.0AA80202.gRaa@pierrot.co.uk>, 
>Terrance Richard Boyes <tez@pierrot.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Can somebody point me at the best place to find out how NEWNEWS
>>requests should be formatted from next month ?
>
>RFC977.  Read the small print.
>
>>Should it be NEWNEWS group.name 000101 000000 [TZ]
>
>Yes, HTH

Agreed, although RFC977 uses 2 digit years it is Y2K proof because it
specifies how to interpret them, thus avoiding all ambiguity.

RFC977 para 3.7.1

>The date is sent as 6 digits in the format YYMMDD, where YY is the
>last two digits of the year, MM is the two digits of the month (with
>leading zero, if appropriate), and DD is the day of the month (with 
>leading zero, if appropriate).  The closest century is assumed as
>part of the year (i.e., 86 specifies 1986, 30 specifies 2030, 99 is
>1999, 00 is 2000).


Regards
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Paul Overell                                        T U R N P I K E  Ltd