Hi, kind of as follow up post to my recent lone message here a more general approach to the problem.
How about adding an optional attribute to XEP-0012's query stanza (eg. stamp) for indicating absolute time. Depending on what you use the time for you might require the entities in XMPP to be synced in time. This would be backward-compatible, by still requiring seconds attribute and having an optional stamp attribute. So it would look like: <query xmlns='jabber:iq:last' seconds='903' stamp='2012-09-10T23:41:07Z' /> With relative time, the only way to do it now, to get absolute time you either have to ping the remote party for its current time (+ transmission delay) or use your own time. Either way you get something but probably not the actual absolute time of the described event. Thoughts? Opinions? Cheers, Tobi
