From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1YIQx2-0006cX-C3 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:02:44 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) client-ip=80.91.229.3; envelope-from=gcbd-bitcoin-development@m.gmane.org; helo=plane.gmane.org; Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1YIQx1-0000DH-3r for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:02:44 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YIQws-0004zf-3f for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 01:02:34 +0100 Received: from e177084064.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.177.84.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 01:02:34 +0100 Received: from andreas by e177084064.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 01:02:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net From: Andreas Schildbach Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 01:02:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <54CF74A5.3050304@gk2.sk> <54CF8E10.5040402@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e177084064.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <54CF8E10.5040402@riseup.net> X-Spam-Score: -0.4 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record 1.1 DKIM_ADSP_ALL No valid author signature, domain signs all mail -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record X-Headers-End: 1YIQx1-0000DH-3r Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Export format for xpub X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:02:44 -0000 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.