Immediate - Date in Changed field
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Joachim Schmitz
Schmitz at RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Mon Jan 13 15:24:27 CET 1997
Dear Wilfried, dear Carol, regarding time stamps in the RIPE-db you wrote:: > Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:58:20 MET > From: "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" <woeber at cc.univie.ac.at> > To: Carol.Orange at ripe.net > Cc: db-wg at ripe.net, woeber at cc.univie.ac.at > Message-Id: <009AE4E2.4C214CCA.9 at cc.univie.ac.at> > Subject: RE: Immediate - Date in Changed field > > Hi DB-folks! > > On a slightly different aspect, > and assuming that we change things anyway... > > How about running the RIPE-DB (and maybe gradually all the others :-) on > a UTC basis, according to some recent suggestions? I think both the 4 digit year presentation and the UTC basis (I estimate this includes hh:mm:ss as well) are a very valuable extension for time stamps in the RIPE-db. This might as well ease some of the troubles in updates within the "near real time" mirrors. Joachim > Just for a sneak preview on one of the small agenda items for the DB WG :-) > > Wilfried. > > ~~~~~~~~~~ > > Dear Database WG members, > > We have been requested to ease the restrictions on the date > in the "changed" attribute to allow for dates with 4 digit years > specifically those starting with "19" and eventually "20". > > For obvious reasons, we agree with this proposition. However, we > also understand that some of you may have software which presumes > the date has the yymmdd format. > > If anyone has a serious problem with this change, please notify me > personally (orange at ripe.net) before the end of the week. > > If we don't hear any show stoppers before the end of the week, we > will proceed. Thereafter, the following will be acceptable formats: > > 19yymmdd > 20yymmdd (eventually) > yymmdd > > Thanks for your ear, > > -- Carol Orange > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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