usefor-article-04 April 2001

5.1.  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 [MESSFOR].

      Date-content        = date-time

        NOTE: It is a useful convention to follow the date-time with a
        comment containing the time zone in human-readable form. The use
        of folding in a date-time is deprecated, even though permitted
        by [MESSFOR].
[There is a specific RECOMMENDED about this in MESSFOR now.]

   In order to prevent the reinjection of expired articles into the news
   stream, relaying and serving agents MUST refuse articles whose Date
   header predates the earliest articles of which they normally keep
   record, or which is more than 24 hours into the future (though they
   MAY use a margin less than that 24 hours). Relaying agents MUST NOT
   modify the Date header in transit.

--- ../usefor-article-03/Date.out          February 2000
+++ ../usefor-article-04/Date.out          April 2001
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
         comment containing the time zone in human-readable form. The use
         of folding in a date-time is deprecated, even though permitted
         by [MESSFOR].
+[There is a specific RECOMMENDED about this in MESSFOR now.]
 
    In order to prevent the reinjection of expired articles into the news
    stream, relaying and serving agents MUST refuse articles whose Date