How programmers should record time

We the data people immediately identify a poorly designed system when we see it handling date and time as plain local time, instead of the number of seconds since January 1st 1970 of time zone 0.

  • This post was published on 1,626,425,523 (UTC, always UTC).
  • Jesus was born -62,399,513,432.
  • Man visited the moon between -14,552,880 and 93,172,200.
  • And so on…

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