Re: Using NEWNEWS in 4 years time

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From: Nick Holloway
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 00:00

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"Anthony R. Gold" <tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk> writes:
> In article <4bs3m3$d08@alfie.demon.co.uk>
>            Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk "Nick Holloway" writes:
> > I then looked at the source to nnrpd, and that _insists_ on the date
> > having two digits, and worse still, "00" will be 1900 :-(
>                                            ^^^^
> Is this still Charles' and Ada's original "machine" code?

Huh?  Sorry, that lost me completely.

Actually, I played with the NewsBorg this evening (after the initial
round of "400 Server Busy" -- how do you get telnet to retry? :-).
I found out that it considers "000101 000000 GMT" to be midnight at the
start of the year 2000.

So, good news for Demon subscribers, since they can ask for news after
the end of the nineties.  However, for slurp users such as myself,
it will fail, as it will have a spurious '1' at the start of the date :-(

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