IPP> Last Call Comment: Job and Printer time attributes should be REQ

IPP> Last Call Comment: Job and Printer time attributes should be REQ

kugler at us.ibm.com kugler at us.ibm.com
Tue Apr 27 11:50:22 EDT 1999



> However, we could write the requirement such that the IPP/1.1 Printer
> implementation had to attempt to get the time by some means, such as
getting
> the time from a networked NTP Time server, from an incoming HTTP request
> (where it is always present),

I don't think you can count on that.  From draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06,
section 14.18 Date: "If the server does not have a clock that can provide a
reasonable approximation of the current time, its responses MUST NOT
include a Date header field.

   - Carl





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