Re: Less is more

Keith Moore <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:46:44 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.ng
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> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:40:13 -0400, Keith Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure what mail-ng could do to solve those problems while still
> > retaining a useful date field.
> 
> How about a single restricted format selected from the somewhat excessive  
> range offered by ISO8601 e.g. 2004-04-27T20:55:00+0100

I fail to see how specifying a different date format will stop people from
writing code that violates _that_ format.  It's not as if ISO8601 is 
significantly easier to either produce or parse than RFC 822 dates.

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