ietf-nntp Revised Notes from IETF 49

Lee Kindness lkindness at csl.co.uk
Wed Jan 24 03:01:31 PST 2001


Stan Barber writes:
 > NNTPEXT at the 49th IETF
 > The group decided that the second  should be rewritten to indicate
 > that the usage of "GMT" or "UTC" was syntactically equal

So the consensus of the mailing list (as I can remember) of dropping
the UTC token was not carried through?

It's important to note that UTC is NOT is rfc-977 and although it's
more 'correct' it doesn't buy as anything apart from code
bloat. Compliant clients will ALWAYS use the GMT token because they
cannot be sure if UTC will be understood by the server.

Lee.



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