[Pulp-list] Date and Time Feedback Requested!

[Jeff Ortel]

Sorry for chiming in last in the game but ...

On 04/15/2011 12:36 PM, Jason L Connor wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm personally struggling with date and time formats and timezone data
> in pulp.
>
> We're currently using 2 different formats, 1 for specifying date and
> time information and 1 for reporting date and time information. I'd like
> to see us unify this, and I'm looking for feedback on what is
> easiest/most desired.
>
> For reporting, we're generally using a timestamp as seconds since the
> epoch as a float in the utc timezone.
>
> For specifying date time data, we're accepting objects with the
> following integer fields: (year, month, day, hour, minute) in the local
> timezone of the pulp server.
>
>
> This is obviously confusing... (especially because some of the reporting
> is using the second format, like for repo schedules)
>
>
> Here's what I'd like to propose:
>
> The date/time format is always an object, with the fields(year, month,
> day, hour, minute, second)

Why not just standardize on a standard format like ISO 8601?

> Please note that pulp will not honor the 'second' field when specify
> times, it's only use is in reporting.
>
> The times are always specified in the timezone local to the pulp server.

So, the pulp server will convert all dates to UTC before using/storing, right?

>
> This keeps the logic on pulp as simple as possible. As well as providing
> both a machine parsable and human readable format for date/time data.
>
> Ok, fire away...
>
>
>
>
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