[dcc2] MultiFile Transfer Headers

Ben Damm bdamm-dcc2 at dammfine.com
Fri Apr 30 14:51:06 EDT 2004


On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:42:29PM +0200, Morten Hanssen wrote:
> Imho a new standard should not even think about using anything other  
> (especially not RFC 822) than ISO 8601 for date/time notation. ISO 8601 is  
> easy to parse and contains everything you'll ever need to know. :)

IRC already uses seconds since epoch in many places, so any IRC client
will already have parsers and formatters for this.  Plus, I think that a
64-bit signed integer is easier to parse than ISO 8601.

-Ben

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