[pacman-dev] makepkg3 improvements (for pacman-3.1)

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 11:11:34 EDT 2007


2007/9/19, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> On 9/19/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/9/19, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> > > Carving my way through some old emails....
> > >
> > > How does this sound for a sanity check while we do this conversion:
> > > If build/install date start with a non-digit, use old code, otherwise
> > > asssume it's an epoch?
> >
> > What do you mean by epoch?
> > ISO 8601 date format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD
> > (e.g. 1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00)
> > or just the Unix timestamp (number of seconds since 1970)?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch
>

Huh?

"The Unix epoch is the time 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970". :-P
I knew this before, nothing new.
I asked about the string format used to represent the time.

"For brevity, the remainder of this section will use ISO 8601 date
format, in which the Unix epoch is 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z."

So? ;-)

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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