Re: I-D ACTION:draft-spencer-usefor-son-of-1036-00.txt

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[email protected]> Fri, 08 May 2009 16:41:40 +0200

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Julien ÉLIE skrev:
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>
> It is amusing to see in the example 4.7:
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>    Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 11:14:55 -0500 (EST)
>
> I thought there was a problem but I saw this syntax is valid and
> defined in "Son of 1036":
>
>      timezone      = "UT" / "GMT"
>                    / ( "+" / "-" ) hh mm [ space "(" zone-name ")" ]
>
> RFC 2822 (5322) does not allow "-0500 (EST)"; it is directly "(EST)",
> though obsolete.
actually (EST) is considered a comment in 2822/5322, so it's perfectly 
legitimate.