Re: documenting the backup manifest file format

On 4/14/20 3:55 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> OK, but I think if we're putting a timestamp string in ISO-8601 format
> in the manifest it should be in UTC / Zulu time, precisely to avoid
> these issues. If that's too much trouble then yes an epoch time will
> probably do.

Happily ISO-8601 is always UTC. The problem I'm referring to is the 
timezone setting on the host system when doing conversions in C.

To be fair most languages handle this well and C is C so I'm not sure we 
need to make a big deal of it. In JSON/XML it's pretty common to use 
ISO-8601 so that seems like a rational choice.

Regards,
-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net