Asdcarl.272
net.news.b
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!sdcarl!rusty
Thu Apr  8 15:14:23 1982
bug in netnews (ctime) at mcnc
Ever since April 1st rolled around we've been plagued with what
appears to be a bug in mcnc's netnews; they have "fixed" their
ctime routine so that it uses a variable number of spaces for
the day in the date. For example their ctime prints the (correct)
date of

	Wed Apr  7 14:45 1982

incorrectly as

	Wed Apr 7 14:45 1982

Note the missing space before the 7; there is always supposed to
be two spaces for the day.

This bug affects us because we use the -M option with readnews
to get the Mail interface and Mail assumes the date on the From
line is in the correct format but since all netnews coming from
mcnc is malformed it confuses Mail and articles get run together.

Could someone at mcnc fix this please?

Patiently waiting for April 10th,

	sdcarl!rusty

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