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Article #47Re: Help wanted on Unparsable dates
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:44
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:44
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tgll@datasci.co.uk (Tim Lyons) writes: >Is there some change I should have made to my getdate routine, >or are there just a lot of incorrect values being transmitted? The latter. But it wouldn't hurt for you to upgrade to either C News or INN -- they both have better date parsers than B News did. Unfortunately, the RFCs notwithstanding, both C News and INN retransmit articles with nonconforming dates. Most likely your news feed has switched to C News or INN, and it's neither rejecting nor fixing articles with nonconforming dates, which leaves you with the mess. Part of the problem is that the RFCs aren't crystal clear on exactly what's allowed in a date line. E.g. in the line Date: 8 Nov 1992 00:22:34+0900 (JST) Is a space required before the `+'? Is the trailing `(JST)' comment OK? Implementors disagree.
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Newsgroups: news.admin.technical Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!rock!stanford.edu!agate!netsys!decwrl!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!scott From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Subject: Re: Help wanted on Unparsable dates Message-ID: <bkhAb0F0@twinsun.com> Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) Organization: Twin Sun, Inc References: <4193@datasci.uucp> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:44:32 GMT Approved: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG Lines: 20