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@reednj@twtxt.xyz I think this would be the first time two clients implement the same #metadata format.

@reednj@twtxt.xyz Ah, yeah, good catch, @8ball@domgoergen.com checks the full mention format.

@phil@philmcclure.duckdns.org I can’t imagine a simpler time format than rfc3339. I would be fine with just using utc or unix time, but i don’t think most people could write that without a client… :)

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Thanks for the reference! How do you create your timeline? Would it help if you had access to the unformatted timeline? Before formatting it’s nick “t” url “t” props “t” unixtime “t” msg

@dracoblue@dracoblue.net The problem is that my ini parser does not remove quotes around values and twtxt’s does. Another parser? Another format? sigh

And INI is a weird format for sharing config. Even in perl one library can’t parse the result of the other. :/ Maybe TOML?

#txtnix displays relative dates when setting time_format to “relative”.

You have to set use_color = 1 and display_format = pretty to get colorized output in #txtnix.

The pretty format is very similar to twtxt without the unicode glyphs and the relative date.

#txtnix now has a –pretty and –simple for the timeline and view subcommands and a config option display_format that defaults to simple.

@parteigaenger I ended up making a giant list of time formats people could have been using: http://bit.ly/1TTmSxM

I think I managed to fix it. It was probably a holdover from the pre-Go time parsing/formatting

how about using ‘mbox’ format for twtxt selectively? we could only use ‘From:’, ‘To:’, ‘Date:’, ‘Subject:’ etc.