I'd still like to retain the option of sub-second precision but this works for me. Losing precision when translating to http/1 is acceptable. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > > On 17/01/2013, at 10:35 AM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote: > > Yep, but you either need to make the epoch start at least a few years > ago (old Last-Modified times, is important for heuristic freshness), OR > keep it signed (losing a bit). > > > > And I think you need more than 12 bits for seconds in a day... > > Oops, for some reason I thought of seconds in an hour. So 5 more > bits, and we're about even with seconds since epoch. Either way > getting from 24 bytes to 4 is pretty good, and no compression scheme > will do better. >
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