On 15/07/14 15:20, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 07/15/2014 07:58 AM, Salz, Rich via RT wrote: >> The Globus syntax is strange. :) >> >> We should support the ISO date/time standard, and use that throughout and >> not invent yet another syntax, or yet another flag. It's fairly simple to >> parse, and handles timezones, relative times, date/time mixing, and so on. >> The XML XSD spec, for example, has a reasonable explanation. > Agreed here. also, the presence of a hyphen in a time marker is too > easily misunderstood as a minus sign. > > If we're talking about the duration of a certificate, we could use > something like the ISO-8601 duration syntax: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-8601#Durations > > e.g. PT1800S is 1800 seconds >
I like the idea, but I won't have time to rewrite the patch right now. Implementing "full" ISO8061 timestamps will take some effort. I'd also propose to rename '-valid' to '-duration' . I'll get back on this in mid August. cheers, JJK / Jan Just Keijser Nikhef Amsterdam ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
