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to: ANDREW LEARY
from: MAURICE KINAL
date: 2020-12-18 06:36:00
subject: alternative DateTime (ref

MSGID: 1:153/7001 5fdc4e06
Hey Andrew!

Just a little something to brighten your day and perhaps spark much needed
participation in this particular echoarea, or whatever the kids are calling it
these days.

proposed DateTime = a string 19 bytes long.
                    Format = "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss" where,
         YYYY = four digit year
                              MM   = two digit month ranging from 01 to 12
                              DD   = two digit day ranging from 01 to 31
                              hh   = two digit hour ranging from 00 to 23
                              mm   = two digit minute ranging from 00 to 59
                              ss   = two digit second ranging from 00 to 59

Since there is no room for the UTC offset DateTime should be set to UTC in
order to avoid confusion.  This format will ensure that the packed message is
exactly the same byte length as specified in fts-0001.016 not counting the
ASCII null charater that terminates the string as per packed MSG header
specification for all header strings (eg To, From, subj, etc).

Life is good,
Maurice

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