[JDEV] Message timestamps

[Michael Lauzon]

Uhm, where can I take a look at the RFCs?




On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Scott Robinson wrote:

> Bah, you all anger me! I post up a timestamp (and other extensions such as
> cc, bcc, routing information) and then its rehashed. ;)
> 
> But I suppose I should insert content into this message. I would suggest
> (since we're looking for compatibility) using the timestamp system specified
> in RFC-822. It isn't Y10k compatibile, but I'm thinking a very small
> modification could be performed to make it so. ;)
> 
> Of course, when we have to deal with other planets, I'm sure GMT will become
> standard. ;)
> 
> Scott.
> 
> * Eric Bowersox translated into ASCII [Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:57:39AM -0600][<8D96EDA0AC04D31197B400A0C96C14804E789B at ossex1.ossinc.net>]
> > I'm wondering if the Jabber <message> tag shouldn't contain some sort of
> > (optional) timestamp, which would be useful for figuring out when you
> > received an offline message.  I just received two offline messages on my
> > Jabber server and I have no idea when they were sent.
> >  
> > The format should probably be:
> >  
> > <message>
> >     ...
> >     <timestamp>19991004T09:53:40</timestamp>
> >     ...
> > </message>
> >  
> > where the <timestamp> tag contains the time the message was sent, in ISO
> > 8601 format (yyyymmddThh:mm:ss).
> >  
> > I also note that the ICQ message protocol includes a timestamp for delivery
> > of "offline" messages when you first log in, which could be translated
> > directly across to this format.  Just some food for thought.
> >  
> >                     Eric
> >  
> > --
> > Eric J. Bowersox - <ebowersox @corp.webb.net <mailto:erbo at durand.com> >
> > Software Engineer - Webb Interactive Services Inc. < http://www.webb.net
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