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

[Christopher Nielsen]

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Charles Lindsey wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:59:45 GMT
> From: Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: ietf-nntp at academ.com
> Newsgroups: local.nntp
> Subject: Re: Comments: draft-ietf-nntpext-base-06-txt
> 
> 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".

12pm is noon; not midnight. Midnight is 12am.

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