Re: [Beacon] Reliable timestamps

Jonas, your alternate suggestion seems easy too. I'd prefer to keep the
Beacon spec as minimal as possible. Kornel, would Jonas' suggestion address
your concern?


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net>
> wrote:
> > It would be very useful if the beacon request included age of the
> beacon, in seconds (perhaps as an HTTP header). This would allow the server
> to easily calculate `current time - age` as the time of the event.
>
> I kind'a like this idea. The page could still do this by calculating a
> "client-time - server-time" difference when a page is first created,
> and then put an adjusted time stamp in the beacon data.
>
> However it seems easy enough to include an age in the beacon. And it
> seems like a common enough feature that it's worth helping authors.
>
> / Jonas
>
>