[Freeipa-devel] timestamps
Dmitri Pal
dpal at redhat.com
Wed Jul 15 19:07:08 UTC 2009
Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 14:48 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
>
>> On 07/15/2009 02:06 PM, John Dennis wrote:
>>
>>
>>> In the limited case of log timestamps I agree with Simo UTC + *numeric*
>>> displacement is fine.
>>>
>> Or better yet, use 8601
>>
>> Here is another good link which is a quick read:
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
>>
>
> Ah I was not implying a format when I said UTC, any format that is a
> recognized standard is fine by me.
>
> I can only note that "number of sencods since X" maybe a little easier
> to parse from a text field that 8601, but I am in no way in love with
> that way to represent a date in time. As long as the date format
> represents UTC+offset I am fine.
>
> Simo.
>
>
Agree.
UTC time is just a number.
Offset probably a number too.
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal
Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.
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