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

Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> Wed, 14 April 2021 16:18 UTC

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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:18:08 -0700
From: Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org>
To: Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com>
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Subject: Re: [saag] [art] Date formats: RFC3339 vs. RFC 5322
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On Wed 2021-04-14T07:16:48-0400 Alan DeKok hath writ:
>   What we've learned in the AAA environment (ISP / Telco) is that there are two reasonable choices for dates:
>
> 1) whatever you use locally, because it will never go off-system, and no one else will ever see it
>
> 2) RFC 3339

I offer that every datetime should be ISO 8601-like except in cases
where bureaucratic requirements demand something different.

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