[protobuf] Re: Issue 324 in protobuf: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format

2014-10-30 Thread protobuf
Comment #8 on issue 324 by wouter.b...@gmail.com: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=324 Temporenc (http://temporenc.org) is a comprehensive binary encoding format for dates and times that tries to solve the problem di

[protobuf] Re: Issue 324 in protobuf: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format

2013-08-23 Thread protobuf
Comment #7 on issue 324 by apenneba...@42six.com: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=324 Yes, please! Datetimes are very common fields, historically implemented with a slew of incompatible formats. Protocol Buffers is i

[protobuf] Re: Issue 324 in protobuf: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format

2012-12-05 Thread protobuf
Updates: Status: Invalid Comment #6 on issue 324 by liuj...@google.com: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=324 Protobuf library is designed to provides fundamental low-level primitive types. You can use int64 or

[protobuf] Re: Issue 324 in protobuf: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format

2012-07-05 Thread protobuf
Comment #5 on issue 324 by lukera...@gmail.com: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=324 The issue is not about the best representation of the datetime as it is serialised (ms since epoch seems fine to me) it is whether t

[protobuf] Re: Issue 324 in protobuf: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format

2012-01-04 Thread protobuf
Comment #4 on issue 324 by tom.ritc...@gmail.com: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=324 If you use a signed 64-bit integer for "milliseconds since the epoch", that gets you to almost 300 million years in the past, and

[protobuf] Re: Issue 324 in protobuf: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format

2012-01-04 Thread protobuf
Comment #3 on issue 324 by cms...@gmail.com: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=324 Can we just have a 64 bit type for 'milliseconds since 1970', as both Java and Javascript like this format? -- You received this mess

[protobuf] Re: Issue 324 in protobuf: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format

2011-08-20 Thread protobuf
Comment #2 on issue 324 by Grigand: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=324 I think adding a binary datetime type, especially based on the aging and awful C conventions, is a terrible idea. It's just not adequate for a

[protobuf] Re: Issue 324 in protobuf: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format

2011-08-20 Thread protobuf
Comment #1 on issue 324 by ask...@gmail.com: Feature: Add a new primitive type for a DateTime format http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=324 I think adding a binary datetime type, especially based on the aging and awful C conventions, is a terrible idea. It's just not adequa