Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: asktime, date modified Message-ID: <3006@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jun-83 19:36:28 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.3006 Posted: Mon Jun 6 19:36:28 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jun-83 19:36:28 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 7 As a result of a bad experience over the weekend, when somebody who couldn't read botched the date-setting part of the reboot sequence, I have modified asktime(1) and date(1) so that asktime distinguishes between unreasonable dates and incomprehensible dates; now it will neither ask for nor allow confirmation of the latter. I also moved the code that prints the old date -- it's kind of silly to have it come out on every request (as opposed to once at the start).