[JDEV] date format

[James A. Hillyerd]

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Jerrad Pierce wrote:

> snip
> PS> Besides, RFC822 uses yy, big no-no. I suggested extensible yyyy
> --

In my job we work a lot with client/server and multiple server setups.
We've found that it's best to: 1. Store all dates in the GMT/UTC timezone,
2. Let the server generate the timestamp, not the client since the server
is much more likely to be synced to atomic time, where-as the client could
have a completely bogus time.

Why not use a simple format like: YEAR.MO.DY HR:MI:SE
It's elegant, with the larger units first, easy to parse (especially if
you enforce padding with zeros) and doesn't favor any one OS/Language.

Just my $0.02, which you are all free to ignore since I haven't
contributed any code. =)

-james

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