On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:43:49PM -0500, Andrew Berg wrote:
> Time for computers is generally just the number of seconds since January 1,
> 1970 at 12:00:00 UTC if I'm not mistaken. Date formats are derived from that
> and displayed according to the user's preference.
Would that it were that si
Faramir wrote:
> Well... just an example: some time ago, the Open Document Format
The ODF-OOXML debate really has very little to do with date and time
standards. If there was an obviously correct way of doing things, both
document formats would support it.
The problem tends to be this: how do
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> Note that in some instances, GnuPG will use an ISO date format as
>> opposed to seconds-since-Epoch.
> Is this for non-Unix-like systems or is it something completely different?
Well we use it for all parts of GnuPG-2 except for gpg.
The rea
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Andrew Berg escribió:
> Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> It is ridiculously hard to come up with a robust time and date standard.
> Why is that?
Well... just an example: some time ago, the Open Document Format
standard was created. OpenOffice uses it, a
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Andrew Berg escribió:
> Faramir wrote:
>> Then I began to think... what does 06/09/08 mean? Here (at Chile), that
>> would mean September 6, 2008. But on USA, that means June 09, 2008.
>> Clearly, since we are at August 11, 2008, the time format in t
Andrew Berg wrote:
> Time for computers is generally just the number of seconds since January
> 1, 1970 at 12:00:00 UTC if I'm not mistaken.
Time for UNIX systems is generally this way. Win32 and MacOS (pre-OS X)
have their own ways of storing time.
It is ridiculously hard to come up with a rob
Robert J. Hansen wrote:
It is ridiculously hard to come up with a robust time and date standard.
Why is that?
Note that in some instances, GnuPG will use an ISO date format as
opposed to seconds-since-Epoch.
Is this for non-Unix-like systems or is it something completely different?
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Faramir wrote:
Then I began to think... what does 06/09/08 mean? Here (at Chile), that
would mean September 6, 2008. But on USA, that means June 09, 2008.
Clearly, since we are at August 11, 2008, the time format in the output
message is mm/dd/yy. But my windows is using dd/mm/, so, maybe at
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Ludwig Hügelschäfer escribió:
> Hello,
>
> the last weeks, when importing public keys I sometimes get:
>
> "Öffentlicher Schlüssel %s ist %lu Sekunden jünger als die Unterschrift"
>
> in english:
>
> "public key %s is %lu second newer than the si
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Hello,
the last weeks, when importing public keys I sometimes get:
"Öffentlicher Schlüssel %s ist %lu Sekunden jünger als die Unterschrift"
in english:
"public key %s is %lu second newer than the signature"
The indicated time interval is very la
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