[news.admin] Bug in news B2.11.17 -- Expires: not parsed correctly?

tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) (02/18/89)

A while ago I applied the official patches from Rick Adams to bring my
news B2.11 to patchlevel 17.  Everything seems to be running fine except
one thing.

I have a modified version of the Arbitron script that posts stats to a local
group once a week.  It submits an article to inews with the option "-e 7days".
On one host running B2.11.14, this works as intended.  The Expires: header
is correctly set to t-7days.

However, on another host running B2.11.17, this same option results in an
article with the Expires: header set to something like 22 hours later.

Is this a bug or my mistake?  Can anyone else reproduce this?  Is this a
known bug?  Did I miss a patch?

Thanks for any help given.  Mail me your response(s) and I'll post a summary
if asked.

Tim
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