Erez Zadok <ezk@news.cs.columbia.edu>,
	Peter Kappesser <Peter_Kappesser@promail.com>,
	

Since January 1, 1996 on some systems, every time users run trn, they may be
asked whether they want to subscribe to new newsgroups which they have
previously declined by answering 'n' or 'N'. The reason is that, as of the
first second of 1996, trn miscomputed the number of leap years, and was
therefore off by one whole day, reporting that the date of the news server was
exactly 24 hours into the future, thus thinking that these "new" newsgroups
could not have been seen at all.

System administrators will have to patch and reinstall trn (see Subject: BLYC
in Part 2 of this FAQ) to fix this problem. Users can work around it by
running trn with the -q option (to ignore new newsgroups) or by answering 'y'
or 'Y' when prompted, then unsubscribing in the newsgroup selector.


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