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- From: a2824as@cd1.lrz-muenchen.de (Michael Storz)
- Subject: Re: New date format (year) ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.075050.28039@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
- Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
- Reply-To: Michael.Storz@lrz.lrz-muenchen.dbp.de
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum Muenchen, Germany
- References: <129@bull.bull.fr>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 07:50:50 GMT
- Lines: 72
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- In article <129@bull.bull.fr>, jpaul@gwx400A.bull.fr writes:
- |>
- |> --
- |>
- |> Hello every body,
- |>
- |> I have seen that on sendmail 5.65 it seems that the year in the date field
- |> is writen with 4 digits :
- |>
- |> ex :
- |> in 5.61 :
- |> Tue, 18 Aug 92 12:08:02 +0200
- |>
- |> in 5.65 :
- |> Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:08:02 +0200
- |>
- |> I presume this is not a hazard : year 2000 is comming and it is probably the
- |> reason of that change.
- |>
- |> But this causes me a problem on a gateway which is not able to manage that
- |> format. And I would like to know if there an RFC or some think concerning
- |> this before submitting the problem to the gateway's programmer.
-
-
- The answer is: RFC 1123
-
- 5.2.14 RFC-822 Date and Time Specification: RFC-822 Section 5
-
- The syntax for the date is hereby changed to:
-
- date = 1*2DIGIT month 2*4DIGIT
-
- All mail software SHOULD use 4-digit years in dates, to ease
- the transition to the next century.
-
- There is a strong trend towards the use of numeric timezone
- indicators, and implementations SHOULD use numeric timezones
- instead of timezone names. However, all implementations MUST
- accept either notation. If timezone names are used, they MUST
- be exactly as defined in RFC-822.
-
- The military time zones are specified incorrectly in RFC-822:
- they count the wrong way from UT (the signs are reversed). As
- a result, military time zones in RFC-822 headers carry no
- information.
-
- Finally, note that there is a typo in the definition of "zone"
- in the syntax summary of appendix D; the correct definition
- occurs in Section 3 of RFC-822.
-
- Most software is not able to handle this at the moment, but it begins to
- change.
-
- |>
- |> Thanks per advance,
- |> Best regards,
- |> -------------------------------- Jean-Paul OLIVIER
- |> Email : J.P.Olivier@frso.bull.fr BULL.S.A.
- |> Phone : (1) 49 45 50 40 20, rue Dieumegard
- |> bullcom : 222 5040 93406 SAINT-OUEN CEDEX
- |> fax : (1) 49 45 53 36 France
-
- --
-
- Michael Storz
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