On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 17:37:22 -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 04:23:43PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote:
> > > is it possible to add anything to the date header?
> > >
> > > Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 (2752 ad U.c.) 10:36:03 +0200
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Aren't there RFC requirements about what a Date: header is supposed to
> > look like?
>
> Yes. 822 specified it and 1123 changed the format a little (made it Y2K
> happy among other things). Strictly speaking, the above format is
> illegal, so who knows how another mail program will parse it.
Well, as I read RFC 822, the above format for the Date header is
perfectly legal. You may place comments enclosed in parentheses
almost everywhere in headers.
There may be mail programs which cannot parse it, but it will the
fault of these programs.
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Byrial
