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by burntsushi 500 days ago
But I'm not critizing the behavior. I'm critizing the name.

And it's not even a timestamp with a UTC offset! It's just a Unix timestamp.

If you think the current naming is "reasonable," then we are likely living in two different planes of existence. And no amount of back-and-forth over the Internet is going to help. This is a level of dissonance that requires an in-person discussion in the pub to resolve.

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DB store data, app interpret data, user cry, developer eyes already dry.

(there's also https://github.com/mweber26/timestampandtz which is delightfully simple, 33 commits, last one 7 years ago)