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Re: Slapd strftime(3) ISO-8601 patch

To: "Salter, Thomas A" <Thomas.Salter@unisys.com>
Subject: Re: Slapd strftime(3) ISO-8601 patch
From: Chris Ridd <C.Ridd@isode.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:06:08 +0100
Cc: openldap-general@openldap.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:16:59 EDT." <7B5973973C58D111BE4400600837760B027602E3@tr-exchange-1.tr.unisys.com>

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:16:59 EDT, "Salter, Thomas A" wrote:
> If you are using this timestamp in the CreateTimeStamp or
> ModifyTimeStamp attributes,  I believe this change violates the LDAP
> standard.  RFC2252 refers to the ASN.1 standards for the definition of
> GeneralizedTime and UTCTime.  ASN.1 refers to ISO-8601, but explicitly
> disallows the use of separators.

I believe you are correct. The patch unfortunately will make OpenLDAP 
not conform with the RFC, which is bad news.

Chris

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  - From: "Salter, Thomas A" <Thomas.Salter@unisys.com>

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