[JDEV] date format

Thu Jul 29 23:32:49 CDT 1999

I got a better Idea why not make it so the year section can be of any size?
Why you ask well, what happen when we hit 9999??? Y3K???? Ok, its sounds
stupid but gee, why not start now? Heck those folks from computer company's
that programmed in 2 digits never thought the software/hardware would be
around that long, who's to say jabber won't? If a date was sent like
1999.2.3  <year>.<Month>.<day>  (Ok, that DOES look like a startdate.) You
could parse the date by the periods instead of digits, leave room for future
expansion. Crazy, yes, but something to think about. Why make the same
mistake twice? BTW, you can all stop laughing now. :)
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----- Original Message -----
From: Collin Forbes <collinf at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] date format

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Jerrad Pierce wrote:

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

RFC 1123 changed the date syntax to use 4-digit years.  This is also the
format preferred by HTTP.

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