Re: attributetype 'date' syntax

To: Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu>
Subject: Re: attributetype 'date' syntax
From: Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 20:34:37 +0200
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
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Ron Peterson wrote:

I want to create a 'birthday' attribute type.  For now, I
think I'll just zero all the non-date portions of the generalized time
structure.


Check out attribute type dateOfBirth defined in RFC 2985.

Personally I defined my own string-based attribute type to avoid having to deal with wrong time portion.

The 'check_time_syntax' function in schema_init.c seems to
be the place to loosen the validation restrictions.


I would not mess around in the OpenLDAP code for that.

Ciao, Michael.

References:
- attributetype 'date' syntax
  - From: Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu>
- Re: attributetype 'date' syntax
  - From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
- Re: attributetype 'date' syntax
  - From: "Pierangelo Masarati" <ando@sys-net.it>
- Re: attributetype 'date' syntax
  - From: Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu>