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Re: [NGO] external module properties



"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > From: "Martin Bjorklund" <mbj at tail-f.com>
> > How about adding an optional counter after the date?  So you can do
> > 
> >   2008-04-29
> >   2008-04-29:1
> >   2008-04-29:2
> > 
> > and so on.
> > 
> > It removes the arbitrary timing constraint that worries Wes, and it's
> > still simple enough for the common use case.
> ...
> 
> Even simpler - just use RFC 3339 date-time with the option of
> abbreviating it to full-date.  That should be enough for even the
> busiest believers in rapid prototyping.

That was my first thought as well, with the additional CLR to only use
UTC, in order for simple string comparison to work.  But I thought a
single integer would be simpler and do the job just fine.

If we do a single integer, we should use a dot instead of colon, as
Andy suggested.


/martin

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