Re: improvements to the "lossage buffer"

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2019-07-31, at 11:09, Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
>> How about ISO 8601?
>
> Yep, one of my favorite ISOs OAT, also the one
> and only one ISO mentioned in the date(1) man
> page.
>
> They also mention RFC 2822 and RFC 3339 tho,
> and of them three, I think I'd vote for 3339:
>
>     2006-08-14 02:34:56-06:00

Thanks, I didn't know those!

>> Also, why would the same timestamp for a few
>> entries be a problem? The problem I'd like to
>> solve is "I did something strange 10 seconds
>> ago, I want to know what I did, I'm not
>> interested in stuff that happened 4 or 40
>> seconds ago".
>>
>> IOW, even better format could be
>> "2019-07-31T07:40:04+00:00 (18 seconds ago)"
>
> Hm, I wonder what the "T" is... time?

I guess so.  This is probably the dumbest part of ISO 8601.

Best,

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