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Subject: Re: gnus date suggestion
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:59:52 -0400
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On 21 Oct 1997 13:03:10 MDT, Jason R Mastaler said:
> This thread never seems to die.  As Johan Danielsson said two
> months ago when this was last brought up,
> 
> "Enough of this now. The way to write dates in mail messages is defined
> by RFC822. If anyone want's to change this, just write a new RFC."

Except as modified by RFC1123, section 5,2,14, which addressed the Y2K
problem (in Oct 1989 no less).

I only bring this up because an anal-retentive RFC822 parser that is
not RFC1123-cognizant will run into some indigestion in some 801 days.

-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech


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