[objclxt]

The other major advantage of using ISO 8601 is it's human readable. Very few people are going to be able to look at a Unix timestamp and convert it in their head (...if you can that's a good party trick).

[ycombobreaker]

I deal with epoch timestamps on a daily basis, and this is my go-to command:

  $ date -d @1378585039
  Sat Sep  7 20:17:19 UTC 2013

[greenlakejake]

You must go to weird parties.