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authorGravatar Feng Xiao <xfxyjwf@gmail.com>2017-12-12 17:52:32 -0800
committerGravatar GitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-12-12 17:52:32 -0800
commit5ce724bcebebb56914da6efc40b85c4c801e6fe1 (patch)
treee6679a7f50ded735baf60a744532e21fa8f51485 /src/google
parent0f9bfa8244fcb68f503c7c373651d4eb1180026f (diff)
parent75eceb84249cd157dc26af44bb77edb57476c053 (diff)
Merge pull request #4036 from xfxyjwf/issue3093
Update comments for Timestamp JSON format.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/google')
-rw-r--r--src/google/protobuf/timestamp.proto4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/google/protobuf/timestamp.proto b/src/google/protobuf/timestamp.proto
index 6074b1f7..eafb3fa0 100644
--- a/src/google/protobuf/timestamp.proto
+++ b/src/google/protobuf/timestamp.proto
@@ -103,7 +103,9 @@ option objc_class_prefix = "GPB";
// {hour}, {min}, and {sec} are zero-padded to two digits each. The fractional
// seconds, which can go up to 9 digits (i.e. up to 1 nanosecond resolution),
// are optional. The "Z" suffix indicates the timezone ("UTC"); the timezone
-// is required, though only UTC (as indicated by "Z") is presently supported.
+// is required. A proto3 JSON serializer should always use UTC (as indicated by
+// "Z") when printing the Timestamp type and a proto3 JSON parser should be
+// able to accept both UTC and other timezones (as indicated by an offset).
//
// For example, "2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z" encodes 15.01 seconds past
// 01:30 UTC on January 15, 2017.