Here's a new version of the time format document. The major change is adding a new format to represent future dates by specifying timezone name. Something like this seems to be needed by the IETF calendaring/scheduling working group to deal with future events and recurring events scheduled in local timezones. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 09:40:43 -0500 From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org To: IETF-Announce: ; Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-newman-datetime-01.txt A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Date and Time on the Internet Author(s) : C. Newman Filename : draft-newman-datetime-01.txt Pages : 23 Date : 01/27/1997 Date and time formats cause a lot of confusion and interoperability problems on the Internet. This document will address many of the problems encountered and make recommendations to improve consistancy and interoperability when representing and using date and time in Internet protocols. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-newman-datetime-01.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-newman-datetime-01.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa: ftp.is.co.za o Europe: ftp.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it o Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au o US East Coast: ds.internic.net o US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-newman-datetime-01.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.