[#10193] String.ord — David Flanagan <david@...>

Hi,

41 messages 2007/02/05
[#10197] Re: String.ord — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/02/06

Hi,

[#10198] Re: String.ord — David Flanagan <david@...> 2007/02/06

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#10199] Re: String.ord — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2007/02/06

David Flanagan wrote:

[#10200] Re: String.ord — David Flanagan <david@...> 2007/02/06

Daniel Berger wrote:

[#10208] Re: String.ord — "Nikolai Weibull" <now@...> 2007/02/06

On 2/6/07, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote:

[#10213] Re: String.ord — David Flanagan <david@...> 2007/02/06

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

[#10215] Re: String.ord — "Nikolai Weibull" <now@...> 2007/02/06

On 2/6/07, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote:

[#10216] Re: String.ord — David Flanagan <david@...> 2007/02/07

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

[#10288] Socket library should support abstract unix sockets — <noreply@...>

Bugs item #8597, was opened at 2007-02-13 16:10

12 messages 2007/02/13

[#10321] File.basename fails on Windows root paths — <noreply@...>

Bugs item #8676, was opened at 2007-02-15 10:09

11 messages 2007/02/15

[#10323] Trouble with xmlrpc — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Some of the Ruby code used by TextMate makes use of xmlrpc/

31 messages 2007/02/15
[#10324] Re: Trouble with xmlrpc — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...> 2007/02/15

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[#10326] Re: Trouble with xmlrpc — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/02/15

On Feb 15, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Berger, Daniel wrote:

[#10342] Re: Trouble with xmlrpc — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/02/16

While I am complaining about xmlrpc, we have another issue. It's

[#10343] Re: Trouble with xmlrpc — Alex Young <alex@...> 2007/02/16

James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#10344] Re: Trouble with xmlrpc — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/02/16

On Feb 16, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Alex Young wrote:

Re: Trouble with xmlrpc

From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-02-16 19:39:08 UTC
List: ruby-core #10344
On Feb 16, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Alex Young wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> While I am complaining about xmlrpc, we have another issue.  It's  
>> shown in this paste:
>> http://pastie.textmate.org/40836
>> Would a patch be accepted to make these changes?
>> James Edward Gray II
> Why is it a problem that the time isn't converted to UTC?

Fair warning:  this issue is certainly debatable.

Currently we send the time without any time-zone information.  It's  
hard to see this as useful in anyway.  There is no way to add a time- 
zone to the iso 8601 field the spec calls for either.  So basically I  
view it that we are sending a useless field.

Sending a UTC date, on the other hand, seems to have some chance of  
being useful.  If the server is going to assume anything, that seems  
the most likely choice.

Sadly the spec (http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec) is beyond useless when it  
comes to addressing this issue:

"* What timezone should be assumed for the dateTime.iso8601 type?  
UTC? localtime?

Don't assume a timezone. It should be specified by the server in its  
documentation what assumptions it makes about timezones."

I consider it insane that such a widely used spec says anything like  
that to begin with, but (much worse) I have no idea how to properly  
implement that.  So, instead of teaching xmlrpc how to read randomly  
formatted documents and interpret arbitrary time-zone rules from  
servers that don't generally provide either, I'm voting we chicken  
out and send UTC.  ;)

James Edward Gray II


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