RFC 822 and RFC 1521 (among others no doubt) are based upon current
English usage in titles where major words (other than conjunctions
and limiting adjectives) are capitalized and acronyms are upper
case. For example:
Content-Disposition:
Message-ID:
These are suggested capitalizations--there is no need to use MUST
instead of SHOULD. Software should be case insensitive within the
header title; case sensitivity within the contents of the field
depends on context.
> I suggest 1996-11-03, which
> continues to be unambiguous after the year 2000. Nobody ever
> uses year-day-month, so the year-month-day format is
> unambiguous with a 4-digit year. If I remember correctly,
> this is actually an international standard.
I'd have to check the standard(s) as well, but I believe UTC drops
any punctuation (depending on which country I've been in, I've seen
`/', `.', `,' or `-') so you'd have 19961103 instead.
> Dolphins and whales have language and may be smarter than us.
I dove with some sea lions in Monterey this weekend, and those
buggers were communicating with a series of grunts that we could
hear!
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195
Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs.
If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
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