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Article #157Re: Several questions/comments on time zones
From: milazzo
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1984 22:39
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1984 22:39
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"If RFC 733 (and its successor, 822) had not made the mistake of defining a mail header in such a way as to make it appear to be designed to be read, the header could encode dates in any form convenient for exchange (some encoding of UT) [...]." It is my understanding that RFC 733 did not invent the contents of a mail header; similar formats had been in use for some time. RFC 733 simply tried to make known (and perhaps official) the various de facto standards which had sprung up in the Internet community. Thus it became a sort of "conglomerate standard". I consider this effort a noble one, if perhaps incompletely successful. Paul G. Milazzo <milazzo@rice> Dept. of Mathematical Sciences Rice University, Houston, TX
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!burl!hou3c!milazzo@rice.ARPA From: milazzo@rice.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Several questions/comments on time zones Message-ID: <1984.01.29.16.39.59.630.00537@Rice-vms.rice> Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 17:39:59 EST Article-I.D.: Rice-vms.1984.01.29.16.39.59.630.00537 Posted: Sun Jan 29 17:39:59 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Feb-84 01:07:58 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 19 Comments: possibly from @MIT-MC:milazzo@RICE-JANUS To: solomon@wisc-crys.ARPA (Marvin Solomon) In-Reply-To: a message from Marvin Solomon dated Sun, 29 Jan 84 08:35:43 cst