Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Valid date headers
Message-ID: <1989Aug20.005301.26933@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <24EDCAF7.144A@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 89 00:53:01 GMT

In article <24EDCAF7.144A@drivax.UUCP> davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) writes:
>I just discovered that C news is posting new articles with a date header
>that looks like:
>
>	Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 13:27:10 GMT
>
>while every other article I receive from outside the system does not contain
>the day of the week preceding the day of the month...
>
>My question:  is this within the limits of valid date headers?

Yes.  RFC1036 explicitly blesses this format in particular, in fact.
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