Apologies. That method is mostly meant to be displayed in the UI. We'll try to provide parseable dates next time.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 23:03, TjL <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm sure I'm not the first one to point this out, so I apologize if > I've missed earlier conversation on this, but this is my first time > looking at API requests during downtime. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <error reason="Planned maintenance" deadline="about an hour"> > Twitter is down for Planned maintenance. It will return in about an hour. > </error> > > It's the "about an hour" part that gets me. > > Twitter's been down for about an hour, and it still says "about an hour". > > Wouldn't it make a whole lot more sense to give an actual parse-able > time-stamp at least in the 'deadline' field? > > It doesn't have to be updated during the outage, but "about an hour" > doesn't really help much. > > TjL > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
