Having a consistent Event-Timestamp format

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

> On Oct 13, 2016, at 6:49 AM, Herwin Weststrate <herwin at quarantainenet.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 13-10-16 12:37, Anuruddha Premalal wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm using the 'Event-Timestamp' in the python module it's printed as
>> follows.
>> 
>> *Oct 12 2016 13:59:27 UTC*
>> 
>> However the timestamp format present in the MySQL databse is *2006-01-02
>> 15:04:00*
>> 
>> Is it possible to enforce the same format as MySQL across the board?, I
>> wasn't able to locate related documentation on this.
> 
> Normalizing to MySQL sounds pretty unusual, I'd normalize it to ISO8601.
> 
> But I think the Python-module has a different problem here: the
> Event-Timestamp attribute is marked in the dictionary as type date.
> Python has a datetime class. Wouldn't it be better to pass a datetime
> object to the Python script instead of a stringified version of the date?

I started converting some stuff to proper Python types in v3.1.x/v4.0.x, but the default type is string for most dictionary types.

-Arran


Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
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