On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 06:02:38AM +0200, Byrial Jensen wrote:
> 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.
Argh. You're absolutely right - I was looking at the syntax in RFC822 and
skipped over the commenting stuff at the beginning. Man, yesterday was
just not my day..
David
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