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

[Clive D.W. Feather]

In message <F1y3vL.FIu at clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, Charles Lindsey
<chl at clw.cs.man.ac.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".

[and others argued as well]

What is wrong with "since 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970" ? Or even "since
00:00:00 on 1970-01-01". 00:00 is clearly the midnight at the start of
the day, as opposed to 24:00.


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