Again on feeds in Gemini format

[Robert "khuxkm" Miles]

November 19, 2020 12:59 PM, "Jason McBrayer" <jmcbray at carcosa.net> wrote:

> 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?

Seconding this. Post order *within* a day is important when it comes to post replies. While this may not be a feed usecase, it IS a feed aggregator usecase, which should be considered. Even in the case of, say, just a client feed reader, it'd be easier to handle posts and their replies if there was some sort of intra-day sort.

I would say that timestamps should be restricted to a certain timezone (i.e; UTC), just to maintain that idea of "you can just treat this date as a dumb string".

Just my two cents,
Robert "khuxkm" Miles