Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.023759.19123@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2184@coconut.bbn.com> <4309@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <10226@ucsd.Edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 89 02:37:59 GMT

In article <10226@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>You could just include it after the date on the same line, if you wish.
>e.g.,
>	Date: 29 Nov 89 12:53:48 GMT -0800

No, you couldn't -- this breaks getdate(), and RFC1036 requires that
dates be acceptable to getdate().
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