Re: created, issued, modified [Re: comments on Atom 0.2]

[Nelson Minar <nelson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>No, we don't.  We treat the issued time as more or less a user-specified
>attribute like the subject:  while it must be a time, that time is only
>meaningful in the sense of "oh, they're posting at 3am (their time),
>they must be up late".

Is it a proper parseable time? Or can I type things like "midnight",
or "early morning"? The Atom 0.2 spec requires it looks like a
parseable time.

>Thankfully, the spec Atom is using for times doesn't require a zone.

Are you sure? I thought the W3C spec did require timezones.

>Using both 1 and 2, then, the pseudocode that could be used by an
>aggregator when displaying:
>  unless (defined post.created) post.created = post.modified;
>  unless (defined post.issued) post.issued = post.created;
>That would reduce posts to one timestamp in the common case.

and the one required timestamp is <modified>? I'm happy with that.