[saga-rg] Timestamp issue

[Pascal Kleijer]

Hello,

> I personally think that the ISO and W3 one are not looking
> particularily beautiful, with T (!) as a delimiter, but they
> are surely simple enough to parse...

Right! But at least it is a text based human readable format.


> On the other we try to stay close to POSIX in many places,
> so sticking with ctime, or even seconds since epoch, would
> also be well justified...

The epoch format can be written down in text, all language that I know 
of supports this format and have formatting functions included. This 
would be a no brainer to use and let the different platform and system 
do the formatting. English, French or Japanese have all a different 
formats but they all come down to use epoch time.


> 
> Cheers, Andre.
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting [Mark.McKeown at manchester.ac.uk] (May 17 2006):
>> The W3C has a profile of ISO 8601 which simplifies life:
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
>>
>> Also IETF have a RFC "Date and Time on the
>> Internet: Timestamps":
>>
>> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3339.html
>>
>> Other Relevent standards that specify dates are:
>>
>> RFC 822 and RFC 1123
>>
>> The HTTP protocol accepts dates in a number of formats,
>> from section 3.3.1:
>>
>> "HTTP applications have historically allowed three different formats
>>  for the representation of date/time stamps:
>>
>>       Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT  ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123
>>       Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036
>>       Sun Nov  6 08:49:37 1994       ; ANSI C's asctime() format"
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps
>> Mark
>>
>>>> Quoting [Christopher Smith] (May 05 2006):
>>>>> Does anybody have a pointer to the relevant ISO standard?
>>>> Is there an ISO standard for that?
>>>>
>>> I found this link:
>>>
>>> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html
>>>
>>> but I haven't read it in any detail.
>>>
>>> -- Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
> 
> 


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Best regards,
Pascal Kleijer

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