Immediate - Date in Changed field

  Hi DB-folks!

  On a slightly different aspect,
  and assuming that we change things anyway...
  
  How about running the RIPE-DB (and maybe gradually all the others :-) on
  a UTC basis, according to some recent suggestions? 
  Just for a sneak preview on one of the small agenda items for the DB WG :-)
  
  Wilfried.

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Dear Database WG members,

We have been requested to ease the restrictions on the date
in the "changed" attribute to allow for dates with 4 digit years
specifically those starting with "19" and eventually "20".

For obvious reasons, we agree with this proposition. However, we
also understand that some of you may have software which presumes
the date has the yymmdd format. 

If anyone has a serious problem with this change, please notify me 
personally (orange at ripe.net) before the end of the week.

If we don't hear any show stoppers before the end of the week, we 
will proceed. Thereafter, the following will be acceptable formats:

19yymmdd
20yymmdd (eventually)
yymmdd

Thanks for your ear,

-- Carol Orange

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