On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 18:33 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
Note, Meta-Signatures has adopted a slight variant where the "T"
is dropped. Apparently, there is a desire to have the date to
be only an integer, but I am not clear on the full reasons for this.
The T is kinda sorta useful as a visual aid in breaking the field up. Aside
from that it is pretty much a wasted byte.
Folks, please forgive an indulgent, sunday evening post, but i'm a bit
confused
about dropping the 't'.
does that mean it's mea-signatures, meta-signaures, or mea-signaures?
I think this comment has to do with converting an ISO 8601 standard
format:
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD
Where the 'T' between DD and hh is used to separate the date field from
the time field. Dropping the 'T' only saves a byte. The TZD is a
timezone offset that is often set to 'Z' for zero offset or GMT.
Otherwise TZD would be in the form of +hh:mm or -hh:mm. The advantage
of adopting a text based reputation standard seems lost, if this
standard becomes modified just to save a few lines of code.
-Doug