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3.1.3 Date
The Date header is the same as that specified in Sections 3.3 and
3.6.1 of [RFC2822] with the added restrictions detailed in Section
2.2. However, the use of "GMT" and "UT" as time zones, which are
part of <obs-zone>, is widespread in news articles today. Therefore,
agents MUST accept, but MUST NOT generate, <date-time> constructs
which include <obs-zone>. As stated in Section 2.1, support for
<obs-zone> would otherwise have been SHOULD accept, MUST NOT
generate. Note that these requirements apply wherever <date-time> is
used, including Injection-Date and Expires in Section 3.1.7 and
Section 3.2.3 respectively.
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-5.1. Date
+3.1.3 Date
- The Date-header contains the date and time that the article was
- prepared by the poster ready for transmission and SHOULD express the
- poster's local time. The content syntax makes use of syntax defined
- in [RFC 2822] (but see the revised definition of zone in section
- 2.4.3).
-
- header =/ Date-header
- Date-header = "Date" ":" SP Date-content
- Date-content = date-time
-
- The date-time MUST be semantically valid as required by [RFC 2822].
- Although folding white space is permitted throughout the date-time
- syntax, it is RECOMMENDED that a single space be used in each place
- that FWS appears (whether it is required or optional).
-
- The date-time MUST NOT be more than 24 hours into the future
- (injecting agents will reject such articles, possibly even when the
- margin is less than 24 hours - see 8.2.2 - and MAY also reject them
- if it is inordinately far into the past). Relaying agents MUST NOT
- modify the Date-header in transit.
+ The Date header is the same as that specified in Sections 3.3 and
+ 3.6.1 of [RFC2822] with the added restrictions detailed in Section
+ 2.2. However, the use of "GMT" and "UT" as time zones, which are
+ part of <obs-zone>, is widespread in news articles today. Therefore,
+ agents MUST accept, but MUST NOT generate, <date-time> constructs
+ which include <obs-zone>. As stated in Section 2.1, support for
+ <obs-zone> would otherwise have been SHOULD accept, MUST NOT
+ generate. Note that these requirements apply wherever <date-time> is
+ used, including Injection-Date and Expires in Section 3.1.7 and
+ Section 3.2.3 respectively.