May 1, 2001
2:26 p.m.
Quoth Markus Kuhn on Mon, Apr 30, 2001:
Interesting bit from the new RFC 2822, which supersedes the RFC 822 Internet email header format:
The 1 character military time zones were defined in a non-standard way in [RFC822] and are therefore unpredictable in their meaning.
This was also mentioned in RFC 1123, chapter 5.2.14, page 56: The military time zones are specified incorrectly in RFC-822: they count the wrong way from UT (the signs are reversed). As a result, military time zones in RFC-822 headers carry no information. Vadik. -- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- G. B. Shaw