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A structured format for dates?

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Thu, 16 June 2022 01:58 UTC

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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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