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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