[saga-rg] Timestamp issue

[Andre Merzky]

Quoting [Christopher Smith] (May 05 2006):
> 
> Does anybody have a pointer to the relevant ISO standard?

Is there an ISO standard for that?


> We could also use seconds since the epoch..... ;-)

Would make it easier for C programmers, but I am not sure if
others could handle them as easily.  I would hesitate to
leave that to the language bindings though (although that is
possible I guess...).

Posix knows about ctime, which basically gives the output of
"asctime (localtime (t))".  That format               
"Wed Jun 30 21:49:08 1993\n" would be a good candidate to
agree on I think.


my 2 cent, Andre.


> On 05/5/06 07:44, "G.E.POUND at soton.ac.uk" <G.E.POUND at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Andre,
> > 
> > Here is a quick [and easily resolved?] issue for your list.
> > 
> > Several attributes are defined in the spec as "time/date", for example:
> > 
> >       'Created'
> >       - The time stamp of the job creation in the resource
> >         manager (i.e. the submission time). Date/time.
> > 
> >       'Started'
> >       - The time stamp indicating when the job started running.
> >         Date/time.
> > 
> >       'Finished'
> >       - The time stamp indicating when the job completed.
> >         Date/time.
> > 
> > Because attributes are handled as strings it would be good to specify a
> > format for the timestamps; for example 'yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS'. This would
> > allow them to be handled predictably by the client code.
> > 
> > Graeme
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 



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