Hi, On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Thomas Koch wrote: > I assume "ISO date format" refers to ISO 8601[3]. Is there any particular > reasond why the field should not include the time of the last update? I think > all relevant programming languages can parse and produce Datetime strings > like > "2007-06-20T12:34:40+03:00".
The reason is that DEP-3 headers should be easy to type and manually keep up to date. And I don't see any reason why meta-data of a given patch would change multiple times per day. > It would avoid a few lines of code and a bit of inaccuracy if we could agree > that the last-update field may also include seconds resolution. I prefer a few more lines of code and a simpler format. It's optimized for humans, not for scripts. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130120090531.ga27...@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com
