On Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 12:20:49 PM UTC+2, Paul Hayton wrote:
> On 09/20/18, Richard Kettlewell pondered and said...
>  
>  RK> The interpretation of the Date: header field isn’t open to opinion.
>  RK> There’s a right way to do it, and your software is doing something
>  RK> 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
> 
> 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
> 
> The actual formatting of the Date: header field looks to be correct to me.
> as per RFC 1036

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1036/rfc1036.html
https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc822/#z28

Following the rfc822, I think they lack the GMT (or whatever).
So it should be:

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:18:45 GMT +1200 

> [snip]
> 
> From: nospam.Paul.Hayton@f100.n770.z3.binkp.net (Paul Hayton)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
> Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:18:45 +1200
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Best, Paul

Bye Jack

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