On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > GPG (like all OpenPGP programs) uses the common "seconds since > > 1/1/1970 UTC" method of storing time where daylight savings time or > > other conversions are irrelevant. > > In doc/DETAILS, it says that soon GnuPG will migrate to an ISO time > format. What are the motivating reasons for this? What's the timeframe > for the changeover? I've seen this warning in the DETAILS file for > quite some time, so I'm kind of wondering if that's still the plan or if > it's been forgotten about.
Werner would have to say the reason, but I want to note that this is only an output/display change. Internally, GPG will always use seconds since epoch for OpenPGP as this is part of the OpenPGP specification. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
