mcferrin@inuxc.UUCP (P McFerrin) (08/02/84)
Dating an article ahead of its time is very easy. Consider the following: TZ=EST-29 postnews The -29 (instead of my normal 5) causes date to return the current time/date corrected to GMT that is 24 hours in advance. The localtime(3c) does not check for valid range of numeric fields in TZ.
gurr@west44.UUCP (Dave Gurr) (08/13/84)
< force of habit ... > I'm afraid that I rather resent inuxc!mcferrin's allegation that I rigged the date on that article !! :-) We do occasionally get screwed up dates here too - there was a bug at ukc a while back which was doing this, though I'm not sure if it's ukc doing it again. Anyone there care to comment ? Oh yes - thanx to all the folks who replied to my query. The upshot of this is that if you have vnews, use `w' to save the article without headers, otherwise use one of the hacks published (there were a few sent to me as well, so if you want them, let me know). This does not solve the problem of signature lines though - let's see a standard for shar file starts and ends! (BTW - the method which detects `From' lines is not suitable here, since ukc and some other news gateways insert `From' lines in strange places) mcvax "Hello shoes! I'm sorry \ but I'm going to have to ukc!west44!gurr stand on you again!" / vax135 Dave Gurr, Westfield College, Univ. of London, England.