Subj : "Packet Type 2 Compatible Formats" (Ex FSP-1040)
To   : Oli
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat Feb 13 2021 02:06 pm

-={ 2021-02-13 14:06:58.413218119+00:00 }=-

Hey Oli!

 O> I think I found one omission: The value from "month" in the Type
 O> 2(+) packet header is "0-11 for Jan-Dec" (in contrast to 1-31 for
 O> "day" of month). This isn't mentioned in Stephen's draft.

I believe that is a consequence of time.h and has nothing to do with fidonet.  It is all in the localtime() structure that 0-11 for months was used rather than the 01-12 used for months in strftime() which is also part of time.h.  According to c89 standards output for strftime does include enough % specifiers to output proper iso-8601 or even a rfc-3339 formatted datetime stamp.  For sure "2021-02-13 14:06:58 +0000" is doable and is backwards compatible to c89.  We could have been using a four digit year since day one.

Life is good,
Maurice

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