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To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: timezones & Date 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:56:35 -0800."
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:38:14 +1100
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From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>

    Date:        Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:56:35 -0800
    From:        Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
    Message-ID:  <v0300560aad74b28a1a18@[205.214.160.50]>

    In my opinion, we should madate UT with offset as the sole form to
    be generated, with only vestigal handling (parsing) of messages generated
    in other forms.

I'm not exactly clear on what you're proposing there, if it is

	Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:56:35 -0800

(from your message), then that's fine, I agree.   If you're
proposing that the time should have been 18:56:35 (UT) along
with (some kind of) indication what the offset from UT was,
(perhaps just the -0800), then this looks like an incompatibe
change.

    Date:
    
    In my opinion, the default should be the time the originator
    submitted the message for transmission,

Yes, though I'd also accept implementations that default to
the time the user began composing the message.

    unless for some reason the originator wants an earlier time
    (and their UA lets them specify it.)

I'm not sure we need the "earlier" there, just "different".
If the UA permits it (not required), and the user has some
reason for bothering, let them say any time they want.

kre