[LEAPSECS] EBML: yet another date format?

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Sat Jun 27 12:17:06 EDT 2015


On 27 Jun 2015 at 12:14, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:

> It appears that yet another date format (queue up that XKCD comic on 
> standards...) is being proposed as part of the spec for EBML, a 
> binary markup language intended to be a binary-file equivalent of 
> XML. The way dates are defined there is:
> 
>      signed 8 octets integer in nanoseconds with 0
> 	indicating the precise beginning of the
> 	millennium (at 2001-01-01T00:00:00.000000000 UTC)

Forgot to include the link to that...

https://github.com/Matroska-Org/ebml-specification/blob/master/specification.markdown


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