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

[Clive D.W. Feather]

In message <yam7612.1552.2016172704 at post.demon.co.uk>, Bill Godfrey
<bill at bacchae.demon.co.uk> writes
>Suggestion, words to the effect of...
>
>The dat is sent as 8 digits in the format CCYYMMDD, where CCYY is the year
>in 4 digits, MM is the two digits of the the month (with leading zero
>if appropiate) and DD is the day of the month (with leading zero if
>appropiate). 
>
>If a six digit year is given by old or non-compliant software, the date
>MUST be taken as above, but with the century is assumed to be the current
>century, if YY is smaller than or equal to the current year, otherwise
>the year us from the previous century.

Surely better is:

    the century is assumed to be the current century if that would make
    the date and time no later than the present, and the previous
    century otherwise.

?

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