Subj : a little too quiet
To   : Fernando Toledo
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Mon Apr 05 2021 08:16 pm

-={ 2021-04-05 20:16:07.639076074+00:00 }=-

Hey Fernando!

 >> standards (e.g. RFC822 or ISO-8601) rather than introducing yet another date/time format.

 FT> I second this!

RFC-3339 is the winner although ISO-8601 works well too.  Too many alpha characters in RFC822 from what I understand about RFC822 which will cause problems given the incompatibilty between codepages.  We're already dealing with misinformed apps regarding alpha characters in the obsoleted FTN two digit year DateTime stamp.  However after reading the latest ISO-8601 documents utf-8 minus and plus characters could easliy leak in, not to mention the utf-8 space, and cause much grief given that a single minus or plus character is 3 bytes which will definetly throw off offsets in headers.

As far as the idea of making it a kludge, I will opt out thank you very much.  A pure ASCII RFC-3339 packed MSG DateTime stamp is the way to go.  Anything else will lead to more corruption given what I've witnessed over the decades.

Life is good,
Maurice

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