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

["Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon () cox net>]

Alexander Kiwerski wrote:
> On 7 Jan 2004 @ 15:25 PST Richard DG Cox wrote:
>
> > |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!
>
> Um, isn't the serial number in a zone file read in by BIND as a standard
> integer?  If so, then 2004010101 (date format serial) would be > 1076370400
> (UTC serial number) when compared wouldn't it as they are both 10 digit
> integers.....?

And from the stupid question file, is 1912 a standard?  (RFC Editor
says it is "Informational".