Re: Re[2]: FYI... Binary Optimized Header Encoding for SPDY

In message <em57fc159f-7eb0-4506-89a6-a55d04ed64ed@reboist>, "Adrien de Croy" w
rites:

>In the end though, when I get a file attributes from windows, the 
>filetime members are in 64 bit ns since epoch.  So either I'd convert 
>to something before transmission, or push that task through to the 
>client side.

Just because somebody else did it wrong, doesn't mean we should
emulate them.

>I don't know what sort of timestamps unix serves up.  I'd expect it 
>mainly to be determined by underlying clock hardware on motherboards.  

No, it's been standardized (wrong!) for 20+ years: struct timeval
and struct timespec, both of which are also mixed-radix formats.

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Received on Thursday, 2 August 2012 12:29:26 UTC