newnews y2k bug in 2.2.1

[Hans Lambermont]

Hello,

This is on a y2k testmachine running in Sat Jan  1 01:53:09 MET 2000

200 news.east.cis.philips.y2k InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.2.1 25-Aug-1999 ready (posting ok).
newnews ins.pcprive 991231 224747
501 Bad date
newnews ins.pcprive 000101 000102
230 New news follows
.
newnews ins.pcprive 991231 000102
501 Bad date
newnews ins.pcprive 991231 992359            
501 Bad date
newnews ins.pcprive 991231 235959
501 Bad date
newnews
501 newsgroups yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]
newnews ins.pcprive 991231 235959 GMT
501 Bad date

So we see two different bugs.

1 y2k bug; if one chooses a date before the millennuim turnover newnews barfs.
2 newnews<enter> gives the syntax of newsgroups ?! Which is spelled
  wrong anyway; it should be newgroups, without the s.

regards,
  Marnix and Hans