Again on feeds in Gemini format

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Thu Nov 19 17:59:55 GMT 2020


"Solderpunk" <solderpunk at posteo.net> writes:

> All this requires to become a fairly complete spec is a specification
> of acceptable datestamp formats. It seems like Luke Emmet's
> implementation of this is flexible in this regard. I would argue
> strongly in favour of supporting only a single format, namely the ISO
> 8601 format (in which today is 2020-11-19). The advantages of this
> format are:

Should the datestamp be *just* a date? Or should it include a timestamp?
This would be useful mainly for posts in the same day that have some
natural ordering (ie replies to one another). If it has a timestamp,
should it be 2020-11-19T17:01:26+00:00, 2020-11-19T17:01:26Z, or
20201119T170126Z, or are any of these good?

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