I’m considering to use Protocol Buffers for data exchange between a Linux and a Windows based system.
Whats the recommended format for sending date/time (timestamp) values? The field should be small when serialized.
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I’m considering to use Protocol Buffers for data exchange between a Linux and a Windows based system.
Whats the recommended format for sending date/time (timestamp) values? The field should be small when serialized.
Although you aren’t saying which languages you are using or what kind of precision you need, I would suggest using Unix time encoded into a
int64. It is fairly easy to handle in most languages and platforms (see here for a Windows example), and Protobufs will use a varint-encoding keeping the size small without limiting the representable range too much.