[net.news.b] arpadate problem

mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) (09/29/84)

arpadate() (in 2.10.1, at least) seems to have a problem parsing
dates that claim to be EDT, but really are EST.  An example is
<1150@cornell.UUCP>, which in addition to being posted on
Sun, 30-Sep-84 00:00:12 EDT (which hasn't arrived yet), expires
on Thu, 1-Nov-84 19:00:00 EDT.  But when you feed this into inews,
the expiration date becomes Thu, 1-Nov-84 18:00:00 EDT.  Presumably
this date will move back in time by one hour for each machine
hop the message takes, until it reaches the wee hours of October 28.

The path the message took to reach us is
	Path: allegra!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!lf

  Mark