Subj : a little too quiet
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Tue Mar 30 2021 09:32 pm

  Re: a little too quiet
  By: Maurice Kinal to All on Tue Mar 30 2021 04:53 pm

 > -={ 2021-03-30 16:53:11.807751972+00:00 }=-
 >
 > Hey All!
 >
 > That was the quietest election ever.  Not sure how to take it but for my
 > part I plan to make some noise over the next two years, my reasoning being
 > that nothing survives without change.
 >
 > On that note, the packed msg two digit year datetime stamp must die a
 > horrible public death.  Who is with me?

I'll just repeat my previous reply to your inquiry on this subject:

FidoNet is a legacy protocol that must (from what I've observed) be enhanced only in backwards-compatible means. So if you want to add, say, the full year of authorship to to messages in a backwards compatible way, a new control paragraph (kludge line) would be the way to go.

And if you're going to introduce another date/time format, best to use existing
standards (e.g. RFC822 or ISO-8601) rather than introducing yet another date/time format.

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