[Myrmornis]

Ok, one thing — perhaps not the most important — is that “timestamp” is a very unfortunate terminology for the abstract concept you describe. The word timestamp very much suggests that it’s referring to an explicit representation of some sort. “timepoint” would be much better for what you’re talking about. Not a criticism of you of course! I mostly write python at work so I rarely am directly exposed to the integer offset values, but I know many people use the word “timestamp” to refer to that integer, as opposed to a formatted string. Which also seems like unfortunate terminology, since what is a stamp if not formatted?