Happy Leap Second!

Chris Newman Chris.Newman at innosoft.com
Mon Nov 24 18:12:09 UTC 1997


On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Antoine Leca wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:59:60 -0700
> 
> BTW, this is a direct download from
> <ftp://elsie.nci.nih.org/pub/tzarchive.gz>; the message appears to
> have been sent on June 30th, but too late in the night.  But I can't
> figure how the month turned to July in the "Date:" header. Perhaps was
> it wrongly handled or stored at elsie? or was it a initial failure?
> 
> My mail client displays it with the full string as you gave,
> but the resumé changes it to "97-07-31 09:00", which is correct for
> my timezone.
> 
> Can someone forge a message with the correct timestamp, in order to
> do real tests?

I admit to having botched the timestamp because I was hand composing it
too late at night.

		- Chris






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