Hi Christian, I imagined that this would be your response, but I wanted to bring it forward so that others ( and you ) are aware of it. Out of curiosity, will you always send timestamps in UTC ( ending in 'Z' ) or will you use the timezone modifier of the Reviewboard installation, e.g. +01:00 ?
Robert On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Unfortunately, this is just the reality of the 1.7 release. We moved to a > newer version of Django that changes how timestamps are stored. From here on > out, they'll never change again, but they will require clients to be > flexible in how they handle formatted timestamps if they want to support > pre-1.7 releases. > > The reason the 1.6 docs are showing the newer timestamp is that the payloads > are computed at doc generation time, and it's using a newer version of > Django. There's work I need to do to fix this, and it's something I'm hoping > to get to, but it's lower priority than some things I have to take care of > right now :/ > > Christian > > -- > Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com > Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org > VMware, Inc. - http://www.vmware.com > > On Jan 22, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Robert Munteanu <robert.munte...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am the current maintainer of the Reviewboard integration for Eclipse [1] . > I was notified by several users that the plugin broke with 1.7, due to date > formatting differences [2] . Apparently for 1.6 a formatted date is > '2010-08-28 02:26:18.474' while for 1.7 it is '2010-08-28T02:26:18.474Z' ( > BTW, there is an incorrect format listed at [3] for 1.6 ; that does not > match what 1.6 currently does ). > > While I agree that ISO 8601 is a good, non-ambiguous way of formatting > dates, it does break backwards compatibility with existing clients, and > forces those which need to support both 1.6 and 1.7 to assume ( or accept ) > more than they should. It would be good to have a standard way of formatting > dates across versions. > > Thanks, > > Robert > > [1]: https://github.com/rombert/ereviewboard > [2]: http://github.com/rombert/ereviewboard/issues/issue/11 > [3]: > http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/1.6/webapi/2.0/resources/review-request/ > > -- > Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > > > > > -- > Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > > -- Sent from my (old) computer -- Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en