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Re: HTTP/2 Header Encoding Status Update

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 27 February 2013 23:04 UTC

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One other thing - 

On 28/02/2013, at 8:16 AM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:

> Date values:
> 
>  1. Dates are encoded as the number of seconds since a new epoch
> (Midnight GMT, Jan 1 1990)

So, how many bytes does changing the epoch save us?

I just get concerned about putting little landmines like this in...

Cheers,

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