[DAS] Re: das/2 proposal status

[Lincoln Stein]

Andrew,

What is the final decision on this?  Will it be compatible with the 
HTTP style, which is

	Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:37:46 GMT

??

Lincoln

On Friday 01 October 2004 12:51 pm, Andrew Dalke wrote:
> Sicotte, Hugues (NIH/NCI) wrote:
> > Furthermore if we use XML date types we can now
> > take time zones into account which is useful now
> > that we are doing worldwide computing.
>
> The spec was using RFC 2068 dates.  I suggested using
> a clarification of RFC 1123, to require 4 digit dates.
> That RFC is a clarification of RFC 822.
>
> RFC 822 is for email, which is almost be definition a
> form of worldwide computing.  It has allowed timezones
> for the last 22 years
>
>       zone        =  "UT"  / "GMT"                ; Universal Time
>                                                   ; North American
> : UT /  "EST" / "EDT"                ;  Eastern:  - 5/ - 4 /  "CST"
> / "CDT"                ;  Central:  - 6/ - 5 /  "MST" / "MDT"      
>          ;  Mountain: - 7/ - 6 /  "PST" / "PDT"                ; 
> Pacific:  - 8/ - 7 /  1ALPHA                       ; Military: Z =
> UT; ;  A:-1; (J not used) ;  M:-12; N:+1; Y:+12 / ( ("+" / "-")
> 4DIGIT )        ; Local differential ;  hours+min. (HHMM)
>
> RFC 2822 does change this to obsolete the military
> and North American qualifications, so that the preferred
> use is the ( ("+" / "-") 4DIGIT ) local differential.
>
> > e.g. 1999-05-31T13:20:00-05:00
> > would represent and Eastern Standard Time, which is 5 hours
> > behind UTC (Universal Time Coordinate)
> > as per iso 8601 for time which is mostly followed by the w3c xml
> > schema http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
>
> Under the normal RFC dates that's written, with timezone, as
>    Mon, 03 May 1999 13:20:00 -0500
>
>
> BTW, it appears that the proper spec for RFC-style
> dates is now RFC 2822.
>
> 					Andrew
> 					dalke at dalkescientific.com
>
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