Re: Repo cpnversion progress report

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:05:49 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> How about a POSIX timestamp rather than an ISO 8601 string? 
> "address@hidden", for example, instead of 
> "2014-01-31T21:44:address@hidden".

Please don't.  These strings are for human consumption.
"2014-01-31T21:44:11" is easily parsed by humans, while "1391204651"
needs some program to convert it to human-readable time stamp.  If you
look at this text outside of Emacs, the conversion is not easy, and
even inside Emacs it needs to type a command, which is a nuisance.

> The ISO 8601 string is not that readable, nor does it match the 
> localtime clock of committer, so it's a bit of a magic cookie anyway.

It's a magic cookie which is easily interpreted by simply reading it.