Re: A structured format for dates?

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 21 June 2022 06:49 UTC

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Just a heads-up:

I've linked a PR from the issue, to give people an idea of one way this might look.

Cheers,


> On 16 Jun 2022, at 11:54 am, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> 
> I'd love to hear what people think about this issue:
>  https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/2162
> 
> In a nutshell, the idea is to define a new structured type for dates, so that instead of e.g.,
> 
>  SF-Date: 784072177
> 
> we'd have:
> 
>  SF-Date: @1994-11-06T08:49:37Z 
> 
> ...as the textual representation. Obviously, if we ever do binary structured fields, its representation there could be more efficient.
> 
> Thoughts?

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