David W. Tamkin writes on 23 August 1996 at 23:14:48
[...]
Alan Stebbens suggested,
| :0fh
| | formail -I"Resent-Date: `date`"
[...]
once it goes out and (2) I can always massage the format options of date to
get output in the standard syntax of Date: headers. But is there a way to do
I don't have answers to any of your other questions, but I can provide
the following
# get the date in RFC822 format for insertion into some messages;
# the "Resent-Date:" field is copied from the "Date:" field on some systems.
# RFC1123 says "All mail software SHOULD use 4-digit years in dates..."
# sun4 doesn't recognize all "date" flags
#year=`date '+%y'`
#DATE=`cent=19; if [ $year -lt 70 ]; then cent=20; fi; date "+%a, %d %h $cent%y
%T EST"`
DATE=`date '+%a, %d %h %Y %H:%M:%S %Z'`
Dan
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