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Re: [xml2rfc] RFC date format?

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Fri, 13 September 2019 15:33 UTC

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Hi Anders,

On 2019-09-13 17:18, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> Hi Henrik,
> 
> On 2019-09-13 17:07, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>> Hi Anders,
>> 
>> On 2019-09-13 17:02, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>>> On 2019-09-13 16:56, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>>>> You can choose format with the --legacy-date-format switch, except for the
>>>> boilerplate which has a fixed format.
>>>
>>> Hi Henrik,
>>>
>>> This does not seem to address my concern about mixed date formats in submitted documents and that the Web tool does something else.
>> 
>> In that case, you must give me more specific information and examples in
>> order to understand and possibly debug.
> 
> If you run the V3 Web tool and ask for RfcMarkup for
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cyberphone/ietf-json-canon/gh-pages/xmlv3/draft-rundgren-json-canonicalization-scheme.xml
> you will (of today at least) see that all dates are in the new format.
> 
> The published version submitted as as XML
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rundgren-json-canonicalization-scheme-08
> shows dates in old format except for
> "This Internet-Draft will expire on 16 March 2020."

Right.  The --legacy-date-format doesn't affect the boilerplate, as I tried
to indicate.

Changing the default for xml2rfc output from submission-time conversion to
use the new format should be trivial; will be so with the next release.


	Henrik


> 
> Cheers,
> Anders
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 	Henrik
>> 
>> 
>>> Anders
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2019-09-13 16:05, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>>>>> After submitting (in XML V3 format)
>>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rundgren-json-canonicalization-scheme-08
>>>>> I see that you haven't fully made up your mind regarding date formats.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the version created by the Web tool dates have changed to
>>>>>
>>>>> nn month year
>>>>>
>>>>> while the submitted generated version mixes the traditional and new date format.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think there was a problem with the old format but what's more important is maintaining consistency.
>>>>>
>>>>> thanx,
>>>>> Anders
>>>>>
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