From: Tsuyoshi Takada (acroyear@gmx.ch)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 23:10:15 CST
Greetings all,
I think the legacy Date format like the following is not systematic.
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:21:25 +0000
This format is complicated especilally in text editing or
statistics, because the month is not numerical but strings, and
the conceptual order contains both "from small to large"
(day - month - year) and "from large to small"(hour - minute - second).
So we cannot sort date data easily. In fact, the sorting of the data
based on this format is very perplexing.
Then, how about adopting ISO-8601 format to News Article Format?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
I suggest "Date-2:" field like the following.
Date-2: 2003-04-02T13:56:30+00:00
Of course, the generation of this field shoule be optional, but
it is disirable for the newsreader which received the message containing
the Date-2 field, to use Date-2 field rather than the legacy Date field.
I request for this new Date format.
-- Tsuyoshi Takada <acroyear@gmx.ch>