That format is defined in ISO 8601 and is used commonly in web services, where the clients and servers may be distributed across multiple time zones.
There are library functions in many languages which produce ISO 8601 valid dates, like PHP5: http://us2.php.net/date Also, while I'm being pedantic, the Unix-style timestamp is seconds since 1/1/1970, not milliseconds. On 8/18/05, The Bo$$ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a quick suggestion: instead of the complex date format required > by the API currently to post, why not just accept a UNIX-style > timestamp in milliseconds? -- Brian Del Vecchio | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://hybernaut.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss