Re: HTTP/2 Header Encoding Status Update

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Sat, 02 March 2013 11:03 UTC

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Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:01:54 +0100
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Others have asked most of my questions, and so I have but one, for now:

On 2/27/13 10:16 PM, James M Snell wrote:
> Date values:
>
>   1. Dates are encoded as the number of seconds since a new epoch
> (Midnight GMT, Jan 1 1990)
>

Why a new epoch?  Can't we use an existing one?

Eliot