that might be smart, 

there _are_ standard date formats...sigh, date formats are always at least a 
little bit of trouble---

I figured plist would adopt standard unix style date or at least nsdate would 
read it easily enough, so I still think I'm missing something...

the binary plist sounds like a better, more compact transport encoding if I 
know I have an iphone on the other end.

does one simply use an NSData rep instead of NSString?


On Dec 18, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:

> I think we need object replacement delegates on formats or something where 
> you can swap out an object for another object so you can put your own 
> rendering of a date in ...
> 
> On Dec 18, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote:
> 
>> well then! Why don't _I_ switch to binary plist!
>> 
>> sounds smaller and better!
>> 
>> how might I then switch to a binary plist format?
>> 
>> On Dec 18, 2010, at 11:33 AM, David LeBer wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2010-12-17, at 11:15 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Downloading plist format, I get dates formatted with this funky Etc/GMT 
>>>> timezone, so I try to get a date from the string
>>>> 
>>>> "2010-12-16 19:25:42 Etc/GMT";
>>>> 
>>>> I try a few formats like this or that, fish around and either I'm missing 
>>>> something or somebody's got a dateformat out there which they use when 
>>>> transferring plist format?
>>>> 
>>>> @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss' ZZZZ"
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone got an incantation on that?
>>> 
>>> I punted and manually replaced the ZZZZ with something I could format.
>>> 
>>> Then I switched to binary plist which are type aware so you get dates from 
>>> dates, instead of strings.
>>> 
>>> ;david
>>> 
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