I'm slightly confused about one comment in section 5.1. The definition of
"month" says that the only valid string for the month is "Jan" - "Dec", i.e.
no numbers are allowed. Yet in the comments for date-time, it has "dd mm
yy".
Anyone know why? Is it a mistake in the RFC, or is it meant to imply that
the day goes before the month goes before the year? And if so, why would it
use dd mm yy and not "day month year" as they do in the definition of date?
- KC Smith
5.1. SYNTAX
date-time = [ day "," ] date time ; dd mm yy
; hh:mm:ss zzz
day = "Mon" / "Tue" / "Wed" / "Thu"
/ "Fri" / "Sat" / "Sun"
date = 1*2DIGIT month 2DIGIT ; day month year
; e.g. 20 Jun 82
month = "Jan" / "Feb" / "Mar" / "Apr"
/ "May" / "Jun" / "Jul" / "Aug"
/ "Sep" / "Oct" / "Nov" / "Dec"