[dns-operations] Storing Dates in DNS

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:07:31PM -0800, Crist Clark wrote:
> Looking for a standard or best practice for storing dates
> and times in DNS, if such things exist. My Google-Fu is
> failing me if such a thing is common knowledge.
> 
> More specifically, if there are accepted methods to store
> the time a specific record was last changed within DNS.
> 
> If there is none, any suggestions smarter than an associated
> TXT record with the Unix Epoch time would be appreciated.


How about a TXT record with an ISO 8601 standard representation of date
and time?

http://www.iso.org/iso/date_and_time_format

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime


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