Comments: draft-ietf-nntpext-base-06-txt

[Charles Lindsey]

In <yam7612.1552.2016172704 at post.demon.co.uk> Bill Godfrey <bill at bacchae.demon.co.uk> writes:

>          9.4.2 LIST ACTIVE.TIMES

>            group. The second is the time when this group was created on
>            this news server measured in seconds since January 1, 1970.

> midnight   

Careful here! January 1, 1970 was a Thursday. The "evening of January 1,
1970" means Thursday evening. Yes? The "night of January 1, 1970 means
Thursday night. Yes? In common parlance, "midnight of January 1, 1970"
means "midnight on Thursday" which means "12pm on Thursday night".

But the start of our date system is Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970, which is not
the same thing at all.

So I think what you need to say is "since the start of January 1, 1970".

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