Re: [Caml-list] Time stamp module floating around?

[Nicolas George <nicolas.george@ens.fr>]

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Le duodi 2 pluviôse, an CCXV, skaller a écrit :
> //Timestamp: 2007/1/12 18:36:37 UTC

I would strongly advise you tu use fixed-length fields with leading zeros:
the big advantage of using the year-month-day order, instead of
month-day-year or day-month-year, is that the lexical order of the string is
the same as the chronological order of the date. Using variable-length
fields breaks this. Furthermore, it makes it harder to parse the timestamp.

On the other hand, it is important not to forget "UTC".

While I am at it, I believe that yyyy-mm-dd is a more common format as
yyyy/mm/dd.

> //Timestamp: 2007/1/13 5:36:37 (local)

It is a shame that whoever designed the tm structure in the first place
forgot the tm_gmtoff field.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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