On 01/23/2013 05:42 PM, Tobias Markmann wrote: > Hi, > > kind of as follow up post to my recent lone message here a more > general approach to the problem. > > How about adding an optional attribute to XEP-0012's query stanza (eg. > stamp) for indicating absolute time. Depending on what you use the > time for you might require the entities in XMPP to be synced in time. > This would be backward-compatible, by still requiring seconds > attribute and having an optional stamp attribute. So it would look like: > > <query xmlns='jabber:iq:last' seconds='903' > stamp='2012-09-10T23:41:07Z' /> > > > With relative time, the only way to do it now, to get absolute time > you either have to ping the remote party for its current time (+ > transmission delay) or use your own time. Either way you get something > but probably not the actual absolute time of the described event. > > Thoughts? Opinions? > > Cheers, > Tobi
Somewhat related: http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2012-October/026887.html
