In message <490f88be6dcf4d5c9baa3f3b5e4c4e83 at usma1ex-dag1mb1.msg.corp.akamai.com> on Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:11:01 +0000, "Salz, Rich" <rsalz at akamai.com> said: rsalz> I am thinking of standardizing the syntax for dates, times, and rsalz> durations used by the applications in the next releases, based on rsalz> http://www.w3schools.com/xml/schema_dtypes_date.asp (with the rsalz> extension that lowercase letters can also be used). rsalz> rsalz> Objects that need dates (x509 etc) will have a standard ?start flag. rsalz> It takes an ISO date-time, the time defaulting to 00:00. A time and rsalz> duration can be specified by putting /duration after the start date. rsalz> Or the abosolute time can be specified with an ?end flag. For example rsalz> rsalz> -start 2017-02-10/p30d rsalz> rsalz> -start 2017-02-10 ?end 2017-03-12 rsalz> rsalz> Both mean the same thing, from Feb 10 for 30 days. rsalz> rsalz> Comments? It's not a huge step to support full blown ISO 8601 (which has a few more alternatives to specify time intervals *). I like the idea. Cheers, Richard (*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 -- Richard Levitte levitte at openssl.org OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/
