ISO 8601 does not mandate the use of separators within date and time. The following are equivalent.
"basic" format: 19850412T101530Z "extended" format: 1985-04-12T10:15:30Z On 9/30/10 12:30 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote: > Early on in the requirements stage of ResourceLoader development we > decided to use ISO8601 as the format for representing timestamps in > URLs. This was chosen for it's legibility, conformance to a standard and > ease of generation. However this was somewhat of an oversight since the > timestamp "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z" gets URL encoded to be > "1970-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z" which leaves something to be desired. Also, > generating this format in JavaScript requires sending a extra 220 bytes > (minified and compressed). > > So, before we seal the deal on using 8601, I would like to collect some > ideas about alternatives which would ideally... > > * Be legible in a URL > * Conform to a well-defined/well-known standard > * Be easy to generate from a unix timestamp in both PHP and JavaScript > > Proposals wanted. > > - Trevor > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| <ne...@wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
