Re: [art] [saag] Date formats: RFC3339 vs. RFC 5322

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 14 April 2021 17:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] [saag] Date formats: RFC3339 vs. RFC 5322
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It appears that heather flanagan  <hlflanagan@gmail.com> said:
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>I’m going to +1 John’s advice as well,  and suggest that if/when this group comes to a consensus on the topic, ask the RFC Editor to consider including
>the guidance in the style guide.

I believe the question is about dates in protocols rather than dates in RFC document text.

For dates in RFCs, we have the <date> element, which in the HTML version is rendered into an HTML <time> element,
so you can reformat the displayed version however you want.

R's,
John