Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On 15 Jan 2008, at 10:07, W B Hacker wrote: >> - a filter or SA rule w/r 'date in future' or some such, (neither >> is in >> default setup, and we don't know your config) > > Not sure if that is in the future - the *date* is a day in the past > for me. > > The oddity is that the day of the week does not match the date. > You *could* try building code to check for that
I have it somewhere - as an LMI Z-80 Forth wordset written to do Geller dates for CP/M - and also in some script I disremember to teach it to a DEC database that lacked dates on the 11-750. > but I think it > would fire so infrequently that it wouldn't be worth it agreed - if only 'coz the typical 'puter's firmware & OS & utils make it so unlikely an event. Wrong date - yes, impossible date not. Otherwise, one has to hack code, or manually insert a date (which I suspect is what happened in the original - e.g. possible product of a flawed interpreted-language utility or script. > - although > it might have a highish false positive effect against dates that > are not exactly in the form you expect (or where the day of the > week is in a different language). > > Nigel. > -- > [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] > That too. There are a great many countries where the 'official' calendar is not the one used in (most of) 'the West'. Lunar, to name one, and in several variants is still common - not just in Asia. There are others. All best left to 'userland', much as National Language character encoding needs to be. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
