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Article #44Help wanted on Unparsable dates
From: Tim Lyons
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:26
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:26
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I am getting a large number of Unparsable date errors, as shown in the extracts below. (Sorry I don't know which articles the expire errors come from). This seems to be many more errors than in the University of Kentuckey error list. Am I doing something wrong? (I am running B-news Version 2.11) Is there some change I should have made to my getdate routine, or are there just a lot of incorrect values being transmitted? Thanks for any help, Tim Lyons <Bs7VTB1w163w@rebell.rmt.sub.org> "Sun, 08 Nov 92 00:22:34 MEZ" <92314.161539BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET> "Monday, 9 Nov 1992 16:15:39 CET" <1689BE0B4.C96@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> "Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:58:42 CET" <921109150@fcshome.UUCP> "Mon, 9 Nov 92 18:41:33 EST5" <GIS-L%92111014205581@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> "Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:07:37 BRA" <1992Nov10.181612.12923@pcsbst.pcs.com> "Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:16:12 MEZ" <1992Nov10.181618.12955@pcsbst.pcs.com> "Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:16:18 MEZ" news expire: Unparsable date "December 3 1992" <1992Nov11.190500.4001@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> "11 Nov 92 19:05:00 SYS$TIME_ZONE" <1992Nov11.190106.4000@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> "11 Nov 92 19:01:06 SYS$TIME_ZONE" <1992Nov11.191112.4004@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> "11 Nov 92 19:11:12 SYS$TIME_ZONE" <4qo5TB5w165w@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz> "Thu, 12 Nov 92 01:31:26 NZST" <19921112.103847.846@almaden.ibm.com> "Thu, 12 Nov 92 19:39:10 CET" <92317.170516KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET> "Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 17:05:16 CET" news expire: Unparsable date "December 3 1992" <TZ06TB1w165w@stam.nl> "Fri, 13 Nov 92 11:07:52 CET" <fVdXweJ@quack.sac.ca.us> "13 Nov 1992 15:06:41 UTC" <19921113.050730.479@almaden.ibm.com> "Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:06:41 CET" news expire: Unparsable date "December 3 1992" <GIS-L%92111315480371@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> "Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:06:05 LCL" <JXV1TB1w164w@ponton.hanse.de> "Tue, 10 Nov 92 12:16:06 MEZ" <92317.1453239051413@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> "Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 14:53:22 CET" <92318.140834CTIRABAS@ESTEC.BITNET> "Friday, 13 Nov 1992 14:08:34 CET" <92318.142107SLYNENSK@ESOC.BITNET> "Friday, 13 Nov 1992 14:21:07 CET" <JP47TB2w165w@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz> "Fri, 13 Nov 92 08:49:42 NZST" <B147TB4w165w@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz> "Fri, 13 Nov 92 08:56:10 NZST" <Hq57TB5w165w@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz> "Fri, 13 Nov 92 09:11:52 NZST" <fVfuOg1@quack.sac.ca.us> "14 Nov 1992 04:21:50 UTC" <fVfuOfH@quack.sac.ca.us> "14 Nov 1992 04:21:37 UTC" <1992Nov14.002806.4029@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> "14 Nov 92 00:28:05 SYS$TIME_ZONE" <alien.010i@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> "13 Nov 92 17:06:30 GMT+12" news expire: Unparsable date "never!" <1992Nov14.132824.4834@black.toppoint.de> "Sat, 14 Nov 1992 13:28:24 GMT+0100" <alien.013g@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> "15 Nov 92 11:04:38 GMT+12" <92318.201304RFLOOD@ESOC.BITNET> "Friday, 13 Nov 1992 20:13:04 CET" <92317.162913CEVDET@TRMETU.BITNET> "Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 16:29:12 TUR" <92317.164054CEVDET@TRMETU.BITNET> "Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 16:40:54 TUR" <MAILQUEUE-101.921116095823.480@geog.aukuni.ac.nz> "Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:58:23 GMT+1300" <4pth7vJIDk@DATA-HH.zer.sub.org> "Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:24:00 CET" <gX39TB1w165w@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz> "Sat, 14 Nov 92 10:28:03 NZST" <dieter03186921014203151@dischw.toppoint.de> "Sat, 14 Nov 92 20:31:51 MEZ" <1992Nov15.165704.38@ittpub.nl> "15 Nov 92 16:57:04 WET+0100"
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Newsgroups: news.admin.technical Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!UB.com!zorch!scott From: tgll@datasci.co.uk (Tim Lyons) Subject: Help wanted on Unparsable dates Message-ID: <4193@datasci.uucp> Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) Reply-To: tgll@datasci.co.uk (Tim Lyons) Organization: Data Sciences, Farnborough, Hampshire, UK Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:26:22 GMT Approved: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG Lines: 53