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master bc4cbbcc57 4/7: Add nndiary-headers obsolescence comment


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: master bc4cbbcc57 4/7: Add nndiary-headers obsolescence comment
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:32:26 -0500 (EST)

branch: master
commit bc4cbbcc57a56a23c64576c8c23ecf6afb1c747b
Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Commit: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

    Add nndiary-headers obsolescence comment
    
    * lisp/gnus/nndiary.el (nndiary-headers): Add comment
    about alphabetic time zone names being obsolescent.
---
 lisp/gnus/nndiary.el | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/nndiary.el b/lisp/gnus/nndiary.el
index ab9c6dd74f..e3fb5d8f87 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/nndiary.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/nndiary.el
@@ -339,8 +339,15 @@ all.  This may very well take some time.")
   ;; for this header) or one list (specifying all the possible values for this
   ;; header). In the latter case, the list does NOT include the unspecified
   ;; spec (*).
+
   ;; For time zone values, we have symbolic time zone names associated with
   ;; the (relative) number of seconds ahead GMT.
+  ;; The list of time zone values is obsolescent, and new code should
+  ;; not rely on it.  Many of the time zone abbreviations are wrong;
+  ;; in particular, all single-letter abbreviations other than "Z" have
+  ;; been wrong since Internet RFC 2822 (2001).  However, the
+  ;; abbreviations have not been changed due to backward compatibility
+  ;; concerns.
   )
 
 (defsubst nndiary-schedule ()



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