Quoting [Christopher Smith] (May 05 2006):
Does anybody have a pointer to the relevant ISO standard?
Is there an ISO standard for that?
We could also use seconds since the epoch..... ;-)
Would make it easier for C programmers, but I am not sure if others could handle them as easily. I would hesitate to leave that to the language bindings though (although that is possible I guess...). Posix knows about ctime, which basically gives the output of "asctime (localtime (t))". That format "Wed Jun 30 21:49:08 1993\n" would be a good candidate to agree on I think. my 2 cent, Andre.
On 05/5/06 07:44, "G.E.POUND@soton.ac.uk" <G.E.POUND@soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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
-- "So much time, so little to do..." -- Garfield