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Re: [saag] Date formats: RFC3339 vs. RFC 5322

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Thu, 15 April 2021 13:36 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com>, Yakov Shafranovich <yakov@nightwatchcybersecurity.com>, "saag@ietf.org" <saag@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [saag] Date formats: RFC3339 vs. RFC 5322
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Subject: Re: [saag] Date formats: RFC3339 vs. RFC 5322
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Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrotes:

>What about unix time: seconds or milliseconds since the Unix Epoch?

If you're going to use epoch-based stuff then go with Julian dates, which is a
well-established way of fixing moments in time with arbitrary levels of
precision.  It's currently 2459320.0656944.

Peter.

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