From: Robert Roessler <roessler@rftp.com>
To: Caml mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Time stamp module floating around?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:53:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B33815.8010003@rftp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070121092451.GA19604@clipper.ens.fr>
Nicolas George wrote:
> 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.
Indeed... it is called ISO 8601. :)
Robert Roessler
roessler@rftp.com
http://www.rftp.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-21 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-21 2:42 Denis Bueno
2007-01-21 3:48 ` [Caml-list] " Chris King
2007-01-21 8:43 ` skaller
2007-01-21 9:24 ` Nicolas George
2007-01-21 9:53 ` Robert Roessler [this message]
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