Re: Less is more

At 16:59 04/04/28 -0400, Keith Moore wrote:

>Not so.  The amount of work in decoding an integer (say a UNIX-style
>time_t) to a date is approximately equal to the amount of work in
>parsing a RFC822 style date, and it's at least as easy to botch
>up the decoder as to botch the RFC 822 date parser.  The amount of
>work in encoding an integer date from yyyy/mm/dd/hh/mm/ss form
>is more than the amount of work in encoding that same quantity
>in RFC 822 format - and it's harder to get that encoder right.

Are you saying that
      yyyy/mm/dd/hh/mm/ss -> integer
is more work than
     RFC 822 -> integer
?

If yes, could you say why?

Regards,   Martin.