On Oct 15, 2013, at 6:54 PM, Paul Belanger <paul.belanger at polybeacon.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Alistair Cunningham > <acunningham at integrics.com> wrote: >> Is there any chance we could have an option to use Unix timestamp format >> (seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 ignoring leap seconds) in the ARI events >> (e.g. creationtime) and (if there are any) the actions? >> > Personally I'd like to see them as iso8601, mostly because other > RESTful APIs in work with use it. I'd also like to see the default > timezone be UTC. Which is why we use ISO-8601 in ARI :-) Here's the strftime() format string: "%FT%T.%q%z" And here's an example: 2013-10-16T12:59:16.444-0500 >> I suspect (correct me if I'm wrong) that Asterisk uses Unix format >> internally, so for apps that do so too this would save some formatting and >> parsing on each end. >> >> I'd be perfectly happy to have this a setting in ari.conf that's disabled by >> default. >> > We already do a mix-mash thing with datetime within asterisk, some > modules implement GMT others don't. I'd vote for picking a standard > time then having the applications control it. ARI uses the default timezone within Asterisk, which (/me digs through code) looks like is whatever's in /etc/localtime. This format for timestamps is both readable and unambiguous. Those are two big wins, IMO. -- David M. Lee Digium, Inc. | Software Developer 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org
