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

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Tue, 13 April 2021 21:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] Date formats: RFC3339 vs. RFC 5322
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> My very strong preference is for ISO 8601 format dates on account of:
> 
>  - it sorts semantically correctly when sorting alphabetically (when
>    using Zulu time)
> 
>  - anyone can read and write ISO 8601 format dates, and it's easy to
>    memorize -- this is not true of any other format
> 
> I would further suggest that timezone information for this purpose is
> not very useful in this context, and that always using Zulu time would
> be best.

thank you

randy