jms@carat.arizona.edu (Joel M-for-Vnews Snyder) (06/25/91)
OK. Thanks for all your cards and letters. If I take the intersection of RFC822+RFC1036+RFC1023 (5.2.14), then I get the following date (as implemented above) as the MOST preferred: 24 Jun 1991 16:32 -0700 with lower case not significant, but judged to be "a good thing" by some elders knowledgable about buggy software out there. HOWEVER, I'm looking at an August 1990 draft of the new NNTP spec, and it says: "Date and time now use ISO 3307 format, but for backward compatibility the prior MMDDYY HHMMSS format may still be accepted. Dates and times are always in GMT." How does this affect the date/time as discussed? Wondering why they keep changing their mind, jms Joel M Snyder, 627 E Speedway, 85705 Phone: 602.626.8680 FAX: 602.795.0900 The Mosaic Group, Dep't of MIS, the University of Arizona, Tucson BITNET: jms@sovset Internet: jms@carat.arizona.edu SPAN: 47541::carat::jms "Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose." - Gracian
moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) (06/25/91)
jms@carat.arizona.edu (Joel M-for-Vnews Snyder) writes: >HOWEVER, I'm looking at an August 1990 draft of the new NNTP spec, and it >says: >"Date and time now use ISO 3307 format, but for backward compatibility >the prior MMDDYY HHMMSS format may still be accepted. Dates and >times are always in GMT." >How does this affect the date/time as discussed? Only for dates in the NNTP protocol, which are entirely different animals from the dates in the article header. ISO3307 (YYYYMMDDhhmmss[.xxxxxx]) is quite nice -- easy to parse. (NNTP2 adds an optional offset in minutes from GMT, instead of the timezones, hallelujah. Four digit years, too. And microsecond precision.) As an implementor, I much prefer this format. A specified unambiguous all-numeric date standard is preferable since it can be sorted easily. Mark.
sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (06/26/91)
In article <24JUN199116325508@carat.arizona.edu> jms@carat.arizona.edu writes: >HOWEVER, I'm looking at an August 1990 draft of the new NNTP spec, and it >says: > >"Date and time now use ISO 3307 format, but for backward compatibility >the prior MMDDYY HHMMSS format may still be accepted. Dates and >times are always in GMT." If you read carfully, you note that this has nothing to do with the Date: field in news or mail. It has to do with an arguement to the NEWNEWS command. Therefore, there is no conflict. -- Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu Director, Networking Olan uucp: rutgers!bcm!sob and Systems Support Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine