- From: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 13:13:33 -0500
- To: "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "'Brian Smith'" <brian@briansmith.org>
- Cc: "'Geoffrey Sneddon'" <foolistbar@googlemail.com>, "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > Brian Smith wrote: > > The semantics of the obsolete date formats are not defined. How is a > > server supposed to interpret a 2-digit year? > > Good question. Do you have an answer? Can we mandate the rules in > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-4.3>? I don't have an answer. RFC 5322's rules are just as good as any, I suppose. > > >> asctime-date = day-name SP date3 SP time-of-day SP 4DIGIT > >> date2 = 2DIGIT "-" month "-" 2DIGIT > >> ; day-month-year (e.g., 02-Jun-82) > > > > Might as well use "day" and "year": > > We can re-use "day", but not "year" (because it's 4DIGIT). I meant, use <day> for <date2> and <year> for <asctime-date>. - Brian
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