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. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu