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[Duplicity-talk] Re: Long filenames incomapible with NTFS
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Alexander Skwar |
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[Duplicity-talk] Re: Long filenames incomapible with NTFS |
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Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:18:44 +0200 |
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Axel Beckert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:48:25AM +0200, Dennis Schulz wrote:
>> I think the ":" are the problem. I would use the MySQL-Timestamp-Format
>> in such a situation.
>> That means: 20070620113923+0200
>>
>> Its human readable and contains no nasty special characters.
>
> Hmmm, wasn't "+" a special character in DOS/Windows filesystems, too?
> ":" may also make problems on (old) Macs.
>
>> Perhaps you can change this. What do you duplicity-users mean?
>
> Although it's human readable it's much more effort to parse it in the
> brain. I definitely prefer the current format, but then again, it's
> just because it a little bit easier to read.
Yes, I think so too. "20070620113923+0200" is of course understandable,
but it's harder to read, as there are that many digits...
How about replacing the ":" with "-"? Ie. 2007-06-20T11:39:23+02:00
would become 2007-06-20T11-39-23+02-00?
Alexander Skwar