[saga-rg] Timestamp issue

[Andre Merzky]

Hi, 


Quoting [Pascal Kleijer] (May 18 2006):
> 
> 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.

Right.


> >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.

I agree, good points.

We are of course also free to agree on "either SSE or ctime"
or such.

Cheers, Andre.


(SSE == seconds since epoch ;-)

> 
> 
> >
> >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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