Date and Time Specs

[D. J. Bernstein]

David Wright <fid...@busy-bee.net> wrote:
> I'm basically interested in the list of valid timezones;

http://cr.yp.to/immhf/date.html

---Dan

[Claus Färber]

David Wright <fid...@busy-bee.net> schrieb/wrote:
> Anyone know what and where the correct standard is for MIME date and time
> fields? The MIME rfcs just seem to point to RFC822, which contains an
> outdated (2-digit year) date. I'm basically interested in the list of valid
> timezones; again, 822 points to X3.51-1975, which is now out of date.

MIME does not contain date specs; it only adds additional features for
non-textual message bodies.

The date spec was revised in rfc1023. Also, draft-ietf-drums-msg-fmt-??
(proposed revision of rfc822) could be a good starting point.

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Claus Andre Faerber <http://www.faerber.muc.de>
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[David Wright]

In article <2000Feb317...@cr.yp.to>,
d...@cr.yp.to (D. J. Bernstein) writes:

> David Wright <fid...@busy-bee.net> wrote:
>> I'm basically interested in the list of valid timezones;
>

> http://cr.yp.to/immhf/date.html
>
> ---Dan

Thanks for two useful references.

I also found a huge list of local names (not in direct connection to MIME) on
http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MHonArc/doc/resources/timezones.html

But, from the draft, it looks like specifying the zone by strings is going to be obsolete.

Dave