vi doesn"t work right on VT100s parse date string

[utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!ariel!orion!lime!we13!rjk]

Not only does the vt100 entry not work correctly, neither does the
entry for the Teletype 4424.  On my 11/70 version of vi, I have a
4424 termcap entry from R. Ian Bardsley at WECo-Princeton.  It works
beautifully in all respects.  The distributed entry for the 4424 on
USG 5.0 is quite poor.  Trying to be idiotically clever, I just
copied my old entry into the new termcap file.  Utter disaster
resulted;  absolutely nothing worked correctly.

So what's going on?  Where's the problem?  Curses lib?  Vi?

						Randy King