ietf-nntp Section 11.5 - NEWNEWS

[Lee Kindness]

Paul Overell writes:
 > Clive D.W. Feather <clive at demon.net> writes
 > >Where ? Because in the United Kingdom the basis of civil time was and is
 > >GMT. Allow me to point you at:

The UK is neither here nor there!

 > Therefore for compatibility with RFC977 (and the real world) the
 > NEWNEWS, NEWGROUPS and DATE command should all use UTC.

For compatibility we should stick to using GMT as the token for the
NEW* commands. We can document that we really mean UTC instead of GMT, 
but lets not add another, incompatible, token.