Date parsing

[Erik Hensema]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:53:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> Erik Hensema <erik at hensema.xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> > I'm using parsedate() in a standalone application called parsedate
> > (original, isn't it? ;-)) in a mail2news script, so I can predict
> > whether or not nnrpd is going to accept the date-header I'm feeding
> > it. I only want the two pieces of software to be the same though ;-)
> 
> > I can provide you with some (maybe 20 or so) rejected dates, if you
> > like.
> 
> I'm curious to see what sorts of things you're getting rejected.

It mostly originates from spam it seems, be here goes:

Sun, 01 Sep 02 14:33:25 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6=D0=B9=FA=B1=EA=D7=BC=CA=B1=BC=E4?=
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 21.04.13 +0200
Mon,12 Aug 2002 22:04:25 PM
Feb, 13 Aug 2002 11:49:10 +0800
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 23:28:47 0800
Fri,02 Aug 2002 21:02:30 PM
Thu Aug 08 11:34:18 2002
Fri,09 Aug 2002 21:30:01 PM
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 17.18.52 +0200
Tue,02 Apr 2002 15:05:16 PM

Note that these are date-headers from _mail_, not news.

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Erik Hensema (erik at hensema.net)