Andreas Schildbach [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-02-02 📝 Original message:On 02/02/2015 03:47 PM, ...
📅 Original date posted:2015-02-02
📝 Original message:On 02/02/2015 03:47 PM, vv01f wrote:
>>> Uff, I would expect YYYYMMDD there so it's human readable as well.
>>
>> Those strings are not meant to be read by humans. YYYYMMDD is more
>> complicated than necessary, given that Bitcoin deals with seconds since
>> epoch everywhere.
>
> First that is a pitty .. as its simply a waste of storage.
>
> but back to Pavol's point: IMHO no harm to anything, as Bitcoin never
> has any valid timestamp below ~1230768000 (jan2009) and thus will always
> have 10 digits.. you can easily identify 8 char long timestamp as the
> proposed format.
> And there never is anything wrong with having a transparent, human
> readable option - especially when it saves 2 bytes in e.g. qr-codes.
Pavol's suggestion saves 2 chars only because its just a date. I think
the creation date should be at least precise to the hour, if not to the
minute.
But anyhow, if everyone prefers a human readble date format I will bow
to the majority.
📝 Original message:On 02/02/2015 03:47 PM, vv01f wrote:
>>> Uff, I would expect YYYYMMDD there so it's human readable as well.
>>
>> Those strings are not meant to be read by humans. YYYYMMDD is more
>> complicated than necessary, given that Bitcoin deals with seconds since
>> epoch everywhere.
>
> First that is a pitty .. as its simply a waste of storage.
>
> but back to Pavol's point: IMHO no harm to anything, as Bitcoin never
> has any valid timestamp below ~1230768000 (jan2009) and thus will always
> have 10 digits.. you can easily identify 8 char long timestamp as the
> proposed format.
> And there never is anything wrong with having a transparent, human
> readable option - especially when it saves 2 bytes in e.g. qr-codes.
Pavol's suggestion saves 2 chars only because its just a date. I think
the creation date should be at least precise to the hour, if not to the
minute.
But anyhow, if everyone prefers a human readble date format I will bow
to the majority.