Subj : "Packet Type 2 Compatible Formats" (Ex FSP-1040)
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sat Feb 13 2021 11:59 am

  Re: "Packet Type 2 Compatible Formats" (Ex FSP-1040)
  By: Maurice Kinal to Oli on Sat Feb 13 2021 02:06 pm

 > -={ 2021-02-13 14:06:58.413218119+00:00 }=-
 >
 > Hey Oli!
 >
 >  O> I think I found one omission: The value from "month" in the Type
 >  O> 2(+) packet header is "0-11 for Jan-Dec" (in contrast to 1-31 for
 >  O> "day" of month). This isn't mentioned in Stephen's draft.
 >
 > I believe that is a consequence of time.h and has nothing to do with
 > fidonet. It is all in the localtime() structure that 0-11 for months was
 > used rather than the 01-12 used for months in strftime() which is also part
 > of time.h. According to c89 standards output for strftime does include
 > enough % specifiers to output proper iso-8601 or even a rfc-3339 formatted
 > datetime stamp.  For sure "2021-02-13 14:06:58 +0000" is doable and is
 > backwards compatible to c89. We could have been using a four digit year
 > since day one.

The month field being discussed here is from the packet header, which is binary (not a string of text). The date field you're referring to is in a "packed message" header. The *year* field of the packet header is already 16-bits, so can already accomodate years up to 65535.

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