ietf-nntp Section 11.5 - NEWNEWS

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Paul Overell said:
> I am arguing that as the authors of RFC977 did not discuss timescales in
> specifying NEWNEWS and NEWGROUPS they were, therefore, assuming that the
> time and date were in the normal, everyday, common or garden timescale.
> This is UTC, not GMT.  Their use of the token "GMT" was as a timezone
> not as a timescale.

I think we should fudge the wording. Both because we can't be sure of which
time scale machines will be using, and because:

>> But if my client allows 3 minutes and the server is out by 5 minutes I'm in
>> trouble anyway. What is a sensible aount of slack ? We should say. 
>
> Turnpike uses 10 min slack if the client has not synchronized its clock
> with a time server, and 2 min slack if it has.

But how do you know those are safe values either ? That's why I think we
should explicitly say what's acceptable.

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