Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: Long filenames incomapible with NTFS

[Kenneth Loafman]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 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?

We're talking about https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?19988.  My 
inclination is to go with the timestamp as UTC and do away with the ':' 
and '+' altogether (2007-06-20T13-39-23).

...Ken