EC2 API: Timestamps do not follow documented formats

[George Reese]

EC2 has the unfortunate tendency to support many different timestamp formats in different places. The OpenStack implementation supports non-standard date/time formats and does not follow the documentation. One example is the response from DescribeInstances for the launch timestamp, but the reality is this problem is pervasive.

[George Reese (george-reese)]

A compatible EC2 API is obviously a wish list item.

On Mar 9, 2012, at 8:22 PM, Vish Ishaya wrote:

> ** Changed in: nova
> Importance: Low => Wishlist
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> Title:
> EC2 API: Timestamps do not follow documented formats
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> Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> EC2 has the unfortunate tendency to support many different timestamp
> formats in different places. The OpenStack implementation supports
> non-standard date/time formats and does not follow the documentation.
> One example is the response from DescribeInstances for the launch
> timestamp, but the reality is this problem is pervasive.
>
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[Vish Ishaya (vishvananda)]

I'm attempting to cut down the release blockers bug list by dividing it into stuff that means we can't ship vs. stuff that we can ship without but I would like it to make it. I (arbitrarily) decided to mark the nice to have stuff by targeting rc-1 and marking it wishlist, It wasn't intended to be a downgrade of the overall priority of the bug.

If you look here:

https://launchpad.net/nova/+milestone/essex-rc1

You will see that there are three ec2 api related bugs marked wishlist because no one has grabbed them to fix. I would very much like these to make rc-1, I just need someone to fix them. They all seem relatively easy, so I'm hoping someone will grab them and propose a fix.

[Harish (harish-rajagopalan)]

Hi,
I am a newbie n I m tryin to analyze this bug, to work on it. Could anyone pls tell me what is the documentation referred above or what is the documented format for the time-stamp?.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Let's use a tag instead

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/5409

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/5409
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/6a3e22a25c9ee3b259084df2f31c61b37f097e39
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 6a3e22a25c9ee3b259084df2f31c61b37f097e39
Author: Mark McClain <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 15 15:47:23 2012 -0400

    fix timestamps to match documented ec2 api

    fixes bug: 823503

    Update to the dateTime format to provide three places of precision to
    microseconds. This change makes the API match the ec2 documents.

    Change-Id: I765e64e99042ade9fa996dfb1dee603d363f9b2c