Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

[Richard D G Cox <Richard () mandarin com>]

On 7 Jan 2004 23:02 UTC Frank Louwers <frank () openminds be> wrote:
| > generated twice per day, so NN is usually either 00 or 01.)
| > January 1970.)  For example, a zone published on 9 February 2004 might
| > have serial number "1076370400".  The .com and .net zones will still
| > be generated twice per day, but this serial number format change is in
| > preparation for potentially more frequent updates to these zones.

| stuid question

Yup!

| but isn't 2004010101 (today) > 1076370400 (9 Feb 2004)?

Nope!

> > The new format will be the UTC time at the moment of zone generation
> > encoded as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

... and not as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS or any contracted version thereof!

-- 
Richard