Article:		A Weblog API For the Grassroots
Subject:		Why is a numeric timestamp needed?
Date:		2003-08-14 06:57:15
From:		Asbjørn Ulsberg
I read: "his also emphasizes that the Necho's timestamp elements should have a numeric attribute that counts seconds since some epoch". Why is this? I can't see any reason to have a Unix timestamp in the feed. As W3CDTF is a date-format that sorts perfectly as a string, the ">" would work as well with it as it will with a numerical timestamp. Do you have any other reasons for requiring a timestamp in the feed?

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• Why is a numeric timestamp needed?
  2003-08-14 18:44:32 Rich Salz [Reply]
  
  Relative operations are a lot easier with numerics (e.g., is this item less than 24 hours old) thant with xsd:dateTime.