[alanbernstein]

Normally I would agree with you, but the "In fact, this extends to almost anything online and even offline." is implied by the generality of the title.

[karmakaze]

I was thinking of distributed systems vs vector-clocks etc.

If it had said "publication date", which is really what's being asked that would be clear enough.

[Cthulhu_]

Nah, I thought it would be about storing dates in databases. Implication is inaccurate, inaccurate is bad, like "a year ago" in timestamps.