[JDEV] Message timestamps

[Scott Robinson]

Readability/hand debugability is horrible. 'nuf said.

Scott.

* Benjamin Kahn translated into ASCII [Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 06:47:02PM -0400][<Pine.LNX.4.10.9910041842140.21113-100000 at ns1.cybersites.com>]
> 
> 	Although I was joking, my suggestion isn't TOTALLY without merit.
> This is why:
> 
> 	This format is the preferred method of dealing with dates when
> using C and C++.  As such, I don't know of ANY language which doesn't
> support dates in this format.  (Including date manipulation routines.)  
> 
> 	Jabber seems to be trying for a human parsable format with XML.
> That's fine, and a worthy goal, so having a date like
> <datetime>939077263</datetime> isn't a good idea, but in general this is
> the best way to do it.
>  
> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Vivre Draco wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:38:25 -0500
> > From: Vivre Draco <cfc at bigfoot.com>
> > Reply-To: jdev at jabber.org
> > To: jdev at jabber.org
> > Subject: Re: [JDEV] Message timestamps
> > 
> > On 4 Oct 99,, Benjamin Kahn sounded off on Re: [JDEV] Message timestamps:
> > 
> > > 	Or, how about the number of seconds since 1970?  If we are
> > > worried about year 2038 issues, we can use a 64-bit number.  ;^) 
> > 
> >    IMHO, a human-readable format is highly preferable -- it minimizes 
> > the client requirements, which seems to be one of Jabber's 
> > philosophies. The ISO 8601 or SMTP standards look like the best 
> > options so far.
> > 
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> > Copyright 1999 Vivre Draco (cfc at bigfoot.com)
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> 						-Ben
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