On 11 Jun 2020, at 10:09, Pete Resnick wrote:
Charlie: First, do note that this is for the intro line in the
message, not the Date: header field, which would be used for the
important stuff. The Date: field is formatted unambiguously as part of
the protocol. For the intro bit, it's already ambiguous in that it
doesn't include the time zone, so no need to get too fussy about that
part.
As someone who grew up using US dates, and then switched 30 years ago, I
know both sides. And it's the human reading the intro line I was
referring to; humans are easily confused by nature. I know to accept
both formats, and I can still get it wrong.
Also, totally numeric is OK if you follow RFC 3339, which has a nice
format of yyyy-mm-dd. Even though you could switch month and day, even
us stupid Americans don't usually do that when the year comes first;
it's so unusual to have the year first, that we generally figure out
that the month comes next. ;-)
Sure, the iso8601 standard is fine. But I made an assumption :-O that
"uncouth Americans" would not use that format. If using iso8601, then
all numbers is just fine and dandy.
-cng
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Charlie Garrison <[email protected]>
Garrison Computer Services <http://www.garrison.com.au>
PO Box 380
Tumbarumba NSW 2653 Australia
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