On July 14, 2005 at 23:22, domainkeys-feedbackbase02(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com wrote:
As far as I can tell, the main rationale is that data arithmetic/comparisons
on
SecondsSince1970 is trivial, whereas doing so on 20050714T045532 is quite a
pain.
Probably not. Implementations can drop the "T" and treat it as a
long integer. Or, a basic stringwise comparison can be also be done
(unless you are concerned about Y10K :), which actually may be faster
since no string-to-integer conversion is required.
--ewh