Re: 822 Date format

Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> Thu, 03 June 1999 19:36 UTC

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:37:29 -0700
To: KC Smith <kcsmith@microsoft.com>
From: Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: 822 Date format
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On 6/3/99 at 12:00 PM -0700, KC Smith wrote:

>I'm slightly confused about one comment in section 5.1. The definition of
>"month" says that the only valid string for the month is "Jan" - "Dec", i.e.
>no numbers are allowed. Yet in the comments for date-time, it has "dd mm
>yy".

It's just a typo in the comments. It should have been "dd mmm yyyy", 
i.e., (up to) two characters for the day, followed by three 
characters for the month, followed by (up to) 4 characters for the 
year.

Numeric months are certainly not allowed.

You might want to check out 
<ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-drums-msg-fmt-07.txt> 
as well as the other work of the DRUMS working group at 
<http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/drums-charter.html>.

pr
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Re: 822 Date format Pete Resnick
822 Date format KC Smith