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Re: Interesting stats on the prevalence of bogus Last-Modified times

From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 10:15:07 -0700 (PDT)
To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970704101222.13356C-100000@andrew.triumf.ca> 
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Jeffrey Mogul wrote:

> Anyway, we were surprised to find that a significant fraction of
> the Last-Modified values appeared to be in the future; i.e., the


Doesn't surprise me. I quite regularly get mail sent last month, or last
year, and sometimes from the future.
I'm ashamed to say I found the clock on one of my servers out by several
hours until I built ntpdate for it ...

Andrew Daviel
Received on Friday, 4 July 1997 10:16:49 EDT

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