Nov. 4, 2011
3:16 p.m.
Absolutely. So let's say that in the docs. -----Original Message----- From: Yann Droneaud [mailto:yann@droneaud.fr] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:16 AM To: Thom Hehl Cc: tz@iana.org Subject: Re: [tz] "Standard byte order" Le vendredi 04 novembre 2011 à 10:27 -0400, Thom Hehl a écrit :
I’m assuming that “Standard byte order” referred to over and over in the docs means Most Significant Byte first?
It should really be documented that way. As far as I know, there is no standard byte order.
But there is a "Network Byte Order" which is Big Endian (Most Significant Byte) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Endianness_in_networking -- Yann Droneaud