Hello Wilfred,

On Fri Jan 27 2017 21:08:34, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Nicholas Boel:

Hit save too soon on the previous message. Apologies.

 WV> I think the ABNF format is overly complex to specify such simple
 WV> things. I don't see any RFC's mentioned in the bibliography only other
 WV> ftsc documents. And FTS-0001 does it in a simple clear way:

 WV>       HH         = "00" | .. | "23"
 WV>       MM         = "00" | .. | "59"
 WV>       SS         = "00" | .. | "59"

 WV> Why not stick to that?

I can only guess he was following a more internet centric standard (when
possible, of course), rather than using old Fidonet standards that are only
useable here in Fidonet?

 WV> Or if you want to be more specific, take as example rfc3339:

 WV>    time-hour       = 2DIGIT  ; 00-23
 WV>    time-minute     = 2DIGIT  ; 00-59
 WV>    time-second     = 2DIGIT  ; 00-58, 00-59, 00-60 based on leap
 WV> second
 WV>                              ; rules

 WV> And none specify that a minute can be 60 !

Also, with what I wrote in the previous message, take a look at the
"dayOfMonth" which is allowing for 31 possibilities, whereas February only has
28 (and sometimes 29).

I don't think what Stephen wrote is saying you need to use all those numbers.
It is merely allotting enough numbers to cover everything, even if it doesn't
use all of them, as you can see (above) it does the same in RFC-3339, with a
lot more room for error.

Regards,
Nick

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