On 4/14/20 1:33 PM, David Steele wrote: > On 4/14/20 1:27 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> On 2020-Apr-14, David Steele wrote: >> >>> On 4/14/20 12:56 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >>> >>>> Hmm, did David suggest that before? I don't recall for sure. I think >>>> he had some suggestion, but I'm not sure if it was the same one. >>> >>> "I'm also partial to using epoch time in the manifest because it is >>> generally easier for programs to work with. But, human-readable >>> doesn't >>> suck, either." >> >> Ugh. If you go down that road, why write human-readable contents at >> all? You may as well just use a binary format. But that's a very >> slippery slope and you won't like to be in the bottom -- I don't see >> what that gains you. It's not like it's a lot of work to parse a >> timestamp in a non-internationalized well-defined human-readable format. > > Well, times are a special case because they are so easy to mess up. > Try converting ISO-8601 to epoch time using the standard C functions > on a system where TZ != UTC. Fun times. > >
Even if it's a zulu time? That would be pretty damn sad. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan https://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
