Ticket #100 (new defect)

Opened 3 months ago

Last modified 3 months ago

timestamps: use fully qualified, unambiguous, standard format

Reported by: zooko Assigned to:
Priority: major Milestone: undecided
Component: logging Version: 0.3.0
Keywords: Cc: zooko,zooko@zooko.com

Description (Last modified by warner)

Please use ISO-8601, except with "_" instead of "T" for the separating character for all timestamps. Please include the ISO-8601 unambiguous timezone indicator (which is either "Z" or a number of hours offset from UTC).

Here is Markus Kuhn's advocacy and summary of ISO-8601:

Here is the related discussion from the Tahoe trac:

Here are some Python implementations of ISO and/or UTC timestamps:

This ticket is the more urgent, less controversial subset of #90 (timestamps: formatting and timezones).

Change History

10/13/08 15:24:51 changed by warner

  • description changed.

reformatted summary a bit