Jools Smyth schreef: >> For consistency, prop=categories&clprop=timestamp now returns timestamps >> in ISO 8601 format (e.g. 2008-08-23T18:05:46Z) rather than MediaWiki's >> internal timestamp format (e.g. 20080823180546) as of r40161 [1]. All >> timestamps that the API outputs are now in ISO 8601 format. >> > > And does it expect input timestamp in this format too ? > The API is pretty flexible in terms of input timestamps. The following timestamp formats are supported: * ISO 8601 (2008-08-23T18:05:46Z) * MW's internal format (20080823180546) * MySQL's internal format (2008-08-23 18:05:46) * UNIX timestamps (number of seconds since January 1, 1970)
This should probably be documented somewhere. > for example to make an edit you get the timestamp of the last revision, > and set basetimestamp to that. Will this still work ? If the API didn't accept timestamps copypasted from API output, that would suck very much :) . Because I strive to make the API not suck (or at least as little as possible), I'll guarantee that the API will at the very least accept data in the format it outputs that same data in, for all eternity. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
