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Re: [Nmh-workers] The zone field of Date-Time components
From: |
David Levine |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] The zone field of Date-Time components |
Date: |
Sat, 25 May 2013 10:44:31 -0400 |
Norm wrote:
> As I read, RFC822, Section 5.1, the zone filed field of
> Date components, is required. Do I misread it? I have
> encountered one Email, for which it is missing. It there a
> de defacto standard which makes it optional?
I agree that it is required by RFC 822. And also by RFC
2822, which obsoletes 822. A zone of "-0000" is allowed,
and indicates no useful zone information. So there is a
syntactically valid way to provide what you received.
David