Re: Date/Birthday fields and LDAP schemas

On 11/25/2008 10:12, Michael Ströder wrote:
> Mark Banner wrote:
>> I had a look around at the various LDAP schemas a while back and
>> couldn't find any date/birthday format already defined.
>
> There are several with different syntaxes used. So it's still a common
> problem. :-/
>
>> Although having just thought about it again, I guess the
>> modifytimestamp is a date field.
>
> First one should avoid using the LDAP syntax GeneralizedTime (e.g. used
> for modifytimestamp) for an attribute storing date of birth since in
> most cases the date of birth is only known without a time (and time
> zone) and therefore a correct equality matching would not be feasible.
> This directly rules out the definition of attribute type dateOfBirth in
> RFC 2985.

Thanks for the reminder/warning.

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