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[Rafal Szczesniak]

Tridge,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:28:36PM +1000, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Mimir,
> 
>  > I thought of it only as a way to pass a values to a function. Nothing
>  > more.
> 
> That's exactly where it should not be used :-)
> 
> The problems are many:
> 
>  - what date format to use?

ISO specifies timestamp string, AFAIR (used commonly in SQL statements).

>  - with or without DST?
>  - local time or GMT ?
>  - what time resolution? 
>  - How to represent microseconds?
>  - how do you add a offset to it?
>  - how do you compare two time strings?
> 
> Please use NTTIME (a 64 bit integer) or 'struct timeval' for all time
> parameters. 

All right, all right, I will :) Good thing I haven't started this bits
yet...


cheers,
-- 
Rafal Szczesniak
Samba Team member  http://www.samba.org

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