On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, John Mani wrote:
As per draft-ietf-drums-msg-fmt,
Handling of 2-digit years in the Date fields is:
If a two digit year is encountered whose value
is between 00 and 49, the year is interpreted by adding 2000, ending up
with a value between 2000 and 2049. If a two digit year is encountered
with a value between 50 and 99, or any three digit year is encountered,
the year is interpreted by adding 1900.
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However, this does not follow the X/Open recommendation of using '68' as the
rollover number.
From: http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version2/whatsnew/year2000.html
Define yy such that if century is not specified, then values in the range
[69-99] refer to years in the twentieth century (1969 to
1999 inclusive), and values in the range [00-68] refer to years in the
twenty-first century (2000 to 2068 inclusive).
Comments ?
Comments on working documents of the IETF DRUMS WG should be sent to the
mailing list for that WG.
The rollover date isn't very important as every MTA produced since RFC
1123 was published SHOULD be using 4-digit years. Given how much of an
improvement the new msg-fmt draft is over RFC 822, I prefer no changes on
such a trivial matter this late in the cycle.
- Chris