ietf-nntp Section 11.5 - NEWNEWS
Lee Kindness
lkindness at csl.co.uk
Wed Nov 22 01:20:47 PST 2000
Russ Allbery writes:
> Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > _SPECIFICATIONS DO NOT CHANGE THE WORLD_.
> It will with time. Just leave it alone. It's not broken. So what if it
> takes thirty years before clients can send it? It's just not that big of
> a deal.
It is. Say someone writes a new shiny client, then see UTC|GMT and
choose to use UTC as it seems 'more correct'. The client is then used
to connect to an older server which does not support the UTC token -
what does it return for DATE? A 500 series response? A 'local zone'
time?
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