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RE: [Syntaxes] Generalized Time inconsistent with ASN.1

To: "'Hallvard B Furuseth'" <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>, <ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org>
Subject: RE: [Syntaxes] Generalized Time inconsistent with ASN.1
From: "Steven Legg" <steven.legg@adacel.com.au>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 16:40:04 +1000
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In-reply-to: <HBF.20030521bg8n@bombur.uio.no>

Hallvard,

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> ASN.1: X.680 (07/2002), section 42, says that 'Z' or timezone in
> Generalized Time is optional, and if it is missing the time is local
> time.  In the Syntaxes draft, 'Z' or timezone is mandatory.

It's mandatory in the syntaxes draft because it is mandatory in RFC 2252.
RFC 2252 disallows local time.

Regards,
Steven

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