A structured format for dates?

• From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
• Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:54:26 +1000
• To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <8C9C4A5C-45DB-43C0-9769-2A7510854AB1@mnot.net>

I'd love to hear what people think about this issue:
  https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/2162

In a nutshell, the idea is to define a new structured type for dates, so that instead of e.g.,

  SF-Date: 784072177

we'd have:

  SF-Date: @1994-11-06T08:49:37Z 

...as the textual representation. Obviously, if we ever do binary structured fields, its representation there could be more efficient.

Thoughts?

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

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