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RFC 3339, "Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps", July 2002

Source of RFC: impp (app)

Errata ID: 5783
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Felipe Gasper
Date Reported: 2019-07-15

Section 5.6 says: 

   date-time       = full-date "T" full-time

...

      NOTE: ISO 8601 defines date and time separated by "T".
      Applications using this syntax may choose, for the sake of
      readability, to specify a full-date and full-time separated by
      (say) a space character.

Notes:

This specification seems ambiguous; the ABNF allows only “T”/“t” as the separator, but the “NOTE:” paragraph describes acceptability of other separators.

It’s unclear what “this syntax” refers to: if “this” refers to ISO 8601, then it seems irrelevant, but if “this” means RFC 3339, then the paragraph conflicts with the ABNF.

I’m not sure of the proper fix because I don’t know the intended meaning.

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