Good points - I am all for that. Andre. Quoting [G.E.POUND@soton.ac.uk] (May 05 2006):
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 15:44:39 +0100 From: G.E.POUND@soton.ac.uk To: Andre Merzky <andre@merzky.net> Cc: SAGA RG <saga-rg@ggf.org> Subject: Timestamp issue
Andre,
Here is a quick [and easily resolved?] issue for your list.
Several attributes are defined in the spec as "time/date", for example:
'Created' - The time stamp of the job creation in the resource manager (i.e. the submission time). Date/time.
'Started' - The time stamp indicating when the job started running. Date/time.
'Finished' - The time stamp indicating when the job completed. Date/time.
Because attributes are handled as strings it would be good to specify a format for the timestamps; for example 'yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS'. This would allow them to be handled predictably by the client code.
Graeme
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