[asterisk-app-dev] ARI timestamps in Unix format

[Paul Belanger]

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.

> 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.

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