Re: quoted names

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1 total messages Started by Mark Crispin Wed, 17 Oct 1984 17:26

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Author: Mark Crispin
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 1984 17:26

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I confess that MM and friends are guilty of botching the syntax of the
date.  That's because, with all the zillions of date/time syntaxes the
TOPS-20 IDTIM% system call can parse and ODTIM% can generate, RFC 822
takes great pains to pick one that isn't among those zillions.  Actually,
I don't think it was really done deliberately, but one wonders.

So, the code picks a nearest approximation, and DEC has been asked to
define a new bit meaning "RFC 822 format".  Where we blow it is that
we don't have a comma after the day-of-week and have a hyphen before
the timezone.

I swear, though, if after we finally get into full compliance with RFC 822
dates they change the syntax to something incompatible AGAIN, I'll get
the %&#@!
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