>From Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe at orcus.priv.at>
>Yes, keeping just the seconds is much easier (whether in hex or
>decimal is really irrelevant). But since people have a hard time
>converting dates to seconds supporting this form is a win. You win
>much less by also supporting [August 14] since people can easily
>translate this to [20010814000000] in their heads.

Yes, there is little benefit in using 'August 14', the main benefit is being 
able to specify relative time in a format that isn't painful.  I don't see any 
particular harm in supporting 'August 14' style dates, etc., but if it's that 
big a deal, we could remove support for them (seems kind of absurd to me, 
though)

>If you want already-available code. Here you are for YYYYMMDDHHMMSS,
>with nondigits ignored. Not that it was hard to write off the top of
>my head:

It also doesn't work, at least the C/C++ version; which is pretty much my 
point, it's better to let somebody else find the bugs in their code than to 
thrust new and untested code on an unsuspecting world.

--
Benjamin Coates


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