Re: [Emailcore] WGLC: draft-ietf-emailcore-rfc5322bis-03

[Steffen Nurpmeso <[e-mail]>]

Jeremy Harris wrote in
 <[e-mail]>:
 |On 03/08/2022 00:14, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |>    Though "-0000" also indicates Universal Time, it is used to
 |>    indicate that the time was generated on a system that may be
 |>    in a local time zone other than Universal Time and that the
 |>    date-time contains no information about the local time zone.
 |> 
 |> because the widely used MTA exim does not do that (or did not when
 |> the patch was committed in 2020, i did not look at the current
 |> code base).
 |
 |I don't think it's changed in that aspect.
 |
 |My probable reasoning was
 |a) a sub-minute offset (TAI being the case in point)
 |    is not displayable with the existing format
 |b) UTC is calculable, displayable, and well-understood
 |c) there was existing handling for UTC timestamps
 |    as a config option
 |
 |I wasn't aware of the "-0000" indicator
 |and I wouldn't have taken a UTC time as indicating that
 |the writer of it was in the GMT timezone.
 |
 |I probably still wouldn't...  I don't recall *ever*
 |seeing "-0000".

Me neither, consciously.  Nor do i believe that most (practically,
all) people ever will put value on that "-".  There was just
a bell ringing when i saw the changeset.  The important thing to
me was of course your struct tm* pointer switch from localtime(3)
to gmtime(3).  I will do this too.

Ciao,

--steffen
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