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

[Lenz Emilitri]

I definitely agree. We use timestamps quite a bit and they are a very
human-unfriendly format. Most likely the string conversions are worth
doing. Also having an option in ari.conf will make life harder for
everyone (if there is an option people will want to tweak it and then
will expect you to handle it in any case).

What timestamps have right is that they are absolute times - so when
you have a date, it should qualify the time zone it's in. Working with
multiple systems in different time zones is a PITA.
l.


2013/10/16 Daniel Jenkins <dan.jenkins88 at gmail.com>:
> I think having these kinds of things configurable is just going to cause
> issues in the long run, it's an API (even if this is the websocket part),
> you wouldn't go and ask github or twitter to be able to configure what
> format their date formats come back in would you?
>
> unix timestamps can cause a lot of issues when it comes to JS/PHP etc - not
> so much I guess when it comes to a call thats going on for 2 minutes but....
>
> I'd rather keep to a single format and for that format to be one that can be
> parsed easily - so YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, it's a big topic and unfortunately
> there was never an agreed standard :(
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10286204/the-right-json-date-format
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:43 AM, 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
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