Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site inuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!mcferrin From: mcferrin@inuxc.UUCP (P McFerrin) Newsgroups: net.news,net.wanted Subject: Re: Wow! Let's do the time warp again! Message-ID: <1000@inuxc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 12:06:17 EDT Article-I.D.: inuxc.1000 Posted: Thu Aug 2 12:06:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 00:04:23 EDT References: <284@west44.UUCP> <730@dual.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Div., Indianapolis Lines: 6 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.