nospam.Paul.Hayton@f100.n770.z3.binkp.net (Paul Hayton) writes:
> On 09/20/18, Richard Kettlewell pondered and said...

>> The interpretation of the Date: header field isn’t open to opinion.
>> There’s a right way to do it, and your software is doing something
>> else.
>
> Richard it looks like the only option available with the software that
> I can take is to remove the +1200 and just post the date/time of the
> BBS message as it lands at the gateway without it. At least that's
> what I think will happen. Let's see. I have removed the +1200 so this
> post and any other from this side in the comings days will not have
> the +1200

The timezone is required by the syntax.

However, there is a way to represent “I have no idea what timezone the
poster is in”, which is a timezone value of -0000. See the discussion
in: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.3

My recommendation would be to use a proper news client rather than
broken and obsolete gateway software, though.

> I also wonder if when using +1200 (which is correct for New Zealand
> where the gateway is based) if I should have added GMT to the time
> stamp to avoid any confusion? e.g. +1200 GMT

No, that is not permitted by the syntax. It also makes no sense. The
timestamp could (hypothetically) be in +1200, or in GMT, but not both.

It’s an incoherent response to the original complaint, too. You’re
creating an interoperability problem, not a human comprehension
problem. Adding things that a human might understand cannot fix
interoperability problems; only adding correct information in the
correct syntax can do that.

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