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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah man. Use 8601 for everything. They’re intrinsically chronologically sortable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a programmatic context? Sure.

In an “I want to be able to comprehend this by glancing at it” context: absolutely not.

2023-08-10 15:45:33-04:00 is WAY more human legible than 1691696733.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What, you don't remember your time in Unix timestamps? Filthy casuls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s super easy arithmetic too, just remember ”Pi seconds is a nanocentury.”