RE: [syndication] Some suggestions for RSS .92

["Mike Cannon-Brookes" <mike@bookmarkbox.com>]

XSLT doesn't that I know of? ;) That's why I was making the point, surely
one goal of RSS should be easy manipulation with XSLT?

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Lyke [mailto:danlyke@flutterby.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 11:59 AM
> To: syndication@egroups.com
> Subject: RE: [syndication] Some suggestions for RSS .92
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> Mike Cannon-Brookes writes:
> > At the moment we use a raw integer date value (representing ms since
> > 1970 or close to) but that's obviously not very human readable /
> > writeable - is there a solution to this?
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> This is why ISO8601 was my first choice, it sorts naturally, lots of
> systems use it (Many SQL servers, for instance), and is human readable
> (although it is only in common useage among computer people, but the 4
> digit year makes it easy to decipher).
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> But everything I work in has a library to convert from that and the
> RFC822 date to and from Un*x time, so it really doesn't matter to me.
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> Dan
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