Time Zone Info Required?

Status

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-protocol uses RFC 3339 date format. Anton Okmianski points out that this format should only be used when the time zone is known and asks for a way to indicate that the TZ info is actually unknown to the device.

Status: SOLVED

Discussion Milestones

• Anton Okmianski [2004-02-11] creates this issue
• Rainer Gerhards [2004-02-11] tells us this is an important issues and offers some (weak) suggestions
• Devin Kowatch [2004-02-12] says that we can't acutally ensure proper time
• Devin Kowatch [2004-02-12] says that we can't acutally ensure proper time and we should not try to formalize this
• Rainer Gerhards [2004-02-12] says that he thinks it is doable and we should take care because it is a real-world issue
• Anton Okmianski [2004-02-12] sums up the issues as he sees them (good summary)
• Rainer Gerhards [2004-02-13] sums up the concensus he sees and proposes a compromise
• Rainer Gerhards [2004-04-19] says he will keep time zone info a specified in -03.
• [2004-04-23] there were no further comments that the suggestions provided in draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-03 were insufficient. As such, it will remain as specified there.

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