ietf-nntp Revised Notes from IETF 49

[Stan O. Barber]

Lee Kindness wrote:
> 
> 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?

Right. 


> 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.

I would be surprised if it adds much code bloat since the intent is for the
server to 
treat the string "GMT" and "UTC" as meaning the same thing, whatever that might
mean from the server implementors point of view. NNTP was never supposed to be a
time server. The intent was for the server to drop the localization for time
zone when either of these strings are present. Nothing more, nothing less.