Re: OT: Re: Less is more

On 3-mei-04, at 7:23, Keith Moore wrote:

>> I'm not arguing that the RFC822 date format is sensible and good.

> nor, really, am I.  but if we're going to change it, we should change 
> it to something that will actually interoperate better  - not just 
> something which will produce a different set of interoperability 
> problems.

Can't disagree with that. And I think the way to accomplish this is to 
have a rule that given a date/time/timezone, there must be only a 
single valid representation of that time in the format we end up 
selecting.

> (note that if we change the date format we'll get interop problems 
> from the conversion between old and new formats no matter what - so 
> the change isn't justified unless we drastically reduce the interop 
> problems associated with the new format as compared with the old.)

Interoperation with legacy email solutions is off-topic on this list.  
:-)