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		kstenerud on Oct 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 For the text variant, it just parses the year field as an integer, so leading zeroes would generate the same year value as if you'd omitted them.

kortex on Oct 24, 2021 [–]

Nice, that's the parsimonious way to handle it.

I'm really digging this system in general. I hope it gets more traction.

dmurray on Oct 24, 2021 | [–]

On the other hand, valid data may now be unreasonably long. What if someone gives you a string that starts with 10^12 leading zeros?

kstenerud on Oct 24, 2021 | | [–]

This is where security and limits comes in:

https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ce...

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