Seeing no response to this thread I have created Issue 306 here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=306
Please star it if you would like unix epoch timestamps included with each update/tweet in API results. -Chad On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Wanted to make sure this wasn't a covered issue before I submitted a ticket. > > It would be handy to have a unix-style timestamp of an update/tweet > passed back with the results along with the "created_at" field. > "created_at" is a useful string representation of the timestamp, but > not all languages have strong date parsers, whereas (pretty much) all > languages can understand a unix timestamp and do further manipulation > from there. > > Has the been discussed before? > Thanks, > -Chad >
