From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>,
joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson),
"(ding) Gnus Mailing List" <ding@gnus.org>,
XEmacs Beta Discussion List <xemacs-beta-discuss@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: gnus date suggestion
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:59:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199710211959.PAA12300@black-ice.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Oct 1997 13:03:10 MDT." <x7bu0jvt01.fsf@4b.org>
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On 21 Oct 1997 13:03:10 MDT, Jason R Mastaler said:
> This thread never seems to die. As Johan Danielsson said two
> months ago when this was last brought up,
>
> "Enough of this now. The way to write dates in mail messages is defined
> by RFC822. If anyone want's to change this, just write a new RFC."
Except as modified by RFC1123, section 5,2,14, which addressed the Y2K
problem (in Oct 1989 no less).
I only bring this up because an anal-retentive RFC822 parser that is
not RFC1123-cognizant will run into some indigestion in some 801 days.
--
Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-21 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-12 19:12 Jason R. Mastaler
1997-01-12 22:07 ` David Moore
1997-01-15 1:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-01 14:21 ` Jason R. Mastaler
1997-05-01 21:30 ` François Pinard
1997-05-03 4:17 ` Jason R. Mastaler
1997-05-03 14:53 ` François Pinard
1997-05-03 15:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-05-03 16:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-05 6:45 ` Steinar Bang
1997-05-08 12:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-03 17:31 ` Jason R. Mastaler
1997-08-05 23:07 ` François Pinard
[not found] ` <x73eooi146.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-08-08 5:43 ` Greg Stark
1997-05-03 15:35 ` Johan Danielsson
1997-08-05 22:59 ` François Pinard
1997-08-06 23:11 ` Kyle Jones
1997-08-07 16:32 ` Johan Danielsson
1997-10-21 14:04 ` François Pinard
1997-10-21 19:03 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-10-21 19:59 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
1998-02-08 19:06 ` François Pinard
1998-02-08 19:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-08 20:09 ` Kyle Jones
1998-02-09 1:13 ` François Pinard
1998-02-09 10:06 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-09 15:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-08 22:53 ` Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-09 3:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
1998-02-09 15:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-03 8:14 ` David Moore
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Ken Raeburn
1997-05-02 4:53 ` Paul Graham
1997-05-02 5:17 ` Jason R. Mastaler
1997-05-03 8:19 ` David Moore
1997-05-03 8:40 ` Steven L Baur
1997-05-03 9:15 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-05-03 8:58 ` Per Abrahamsen
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