[dcc2] MultiFile Transfer Headers

Jesse McGrew jmcgrew at hansprestige.com
Sat May 1 00:27:31 EDT 2004


codemstr at ptdprolog.net wrote:

>Ok I can see the usefulness there. I'm just not so sure the usefulness that 
>that brings outweighs the confusion it will also bring. Meaning, what happens 
>if it is from neither today, nor last week, but from tomorrow?
>
Then something must be wrong with his client, right?

>So people will be confused by the fact that, yes ViRC.exe was modified a week 
>ago, but it was created today. How can you modify what has not been created 
>yet?
>  
>
Well, anyone who uses zip files (or any other archive that tracks 
timestamps) must've encountered the same thing at some point.

I don't feel strongly about timestamps, I just think it'd be convenient 
to have them, if they can be done portably and without too much effort. 
To that effect I think we should stick with epoch timestamps instead of 
any human-readable forms, since all the timestamps on IRC are in the 
same format.

Jesse


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