Hello Nicholas,

On Monday January 30 2017 15:03, you wrote to me:

 MV>> Twist it any way you want, 24 for the hour and 60 for the minutes
 MV>> and seconds is NOT Fidonet current practise. And will never be
 MV>> compatible with Fidonet current practise.

 NB> As far as I can tell, everything in the unmodified "Draft #3" I posted
 NB> covers everything in FTS-0001 and then some. So I would say "current
 NB> practice" is being documented for both backwards AND forwards
 NB> compatibility.

One can propose anything one wants. If someone insist on submitting a proposal
where it is proposed that pi shall be treated as equal to three in Fidonet, the
FTSC will not refuse it.

But as I already wrote, there is a difference between a proposal and a
standard. FTSC standards should be written on the basis of "if you do it like
this, it will work". A proposal to threat pi as three or allowing "24" for the
hour field, will never be promoted to a standard since it violates the above
basic rule.


Cheers, Michiel

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