- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:23:30 +1000
- To: Glenn Strauss <gs-lists-ietf-http-wg@gluelogic.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Hi Glenn, > On 16 Jun 2022, at 2:18 pm, Glenn Strauss <gs-lists-ietf-http-wg@gluelogic.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 11:54:26AM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> 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? > > +1 for ISO 8601 date format with 24-hour time notation (RFC 3339) > (without the '@' ?) Structured fields requires a sigil character to identify a type in the textual representation -- `@` seems appropriate for a date. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/
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