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Also known as: Date
The header giving the time an article was posted, in the same format email uses, including a timezone offset. Newsreaders sort and expire on it and indexers report release age from it. The value comes from the posting client, so a wrong clock produces articles that sort far into the past or future; servers commonly reject dates that fall outside a plausible window.
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