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by deathanatos 1479 days ago
> Unix time is the real universal date format surely?

Heh… It can't represent UTC (leap seconds). Implementation weirdness like not being able to represent dates outside the 32-bit second counter range due to using a 32-bit second counter. The occasional need to store the TZ the timestamp is relevant in/to.

> It underpins basically everything in datetime database entries.

It does do that.

> The problem is that most people can't read that

This is why I prefer RFC 3339 or ISO, in that order.

> along with the French somehow never being able to convince the world to adopt decimal time.

Somehow. :)