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

[Evan Martin <martine@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:08:39PM -0700, Jeremy Gray wrote:
> > As I understand it:
> >  - created is the "real" create time;
> >  - modified is the "real" modified time;
> >  - issued is whatever time the person wants to say the post came from.
> >    (Consider Pepys' Diary.)
> 
> As I understand it (and reinforced by Danny's recent post on the DC dates),
> issued is the actual moment of publication, not when the person wants to say
> the post came from. IMHO, created would be much more suitable for such
> assertions.
> 
> Is there an interpretational disagreement here that I am not aware of?

Yes, apparently.  But it's also possible I'm the only one with the
interpretation problem.

By yours/Danny's definitions, how is the moment of publication different
than the moment of creation?  (And how would Pepys' Diary be represented
as an Atom feed?  Would the dates have be included in the content body?)

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