Re: From_ broken slightly in 1.61

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Author: Alan Thew
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To: Chris Thompson
CC: Exim List
Subject: Re: From_ broken slightly in 1.61
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Chris Thompson wrote:

> Alan Thew wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'm not running the latest, but shouldn't the format
> >
> > From user@site Fri Aug 08 08:33:38 1997

                            ^this probably should be a leading space

> >
> > have a leading space rather than a leading zero in `08' ?
>
> Would you like to quote an applicable standard in this area? :-)


There's quite a good list in the pine source code about what is wrong :-)
well what Mark Crispen thinks is wrong ....
>
> Exim just uses strftime() with format "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y" [see src/tod.c].
> It used to put a timezone offset in as well, but this caused trouble with some
> MUAs, so that was taken out. I hope you aren't going to say that some MUAs
> object to leading zeros on the hour?
>

None that I know off. :-)

Alan Thew