[brianzelip]

I'm a (very) novice web dev and have been poking around Forge[0]. I noticed all your time data is expressed in unix time. Do most real-time web apps express time this way? Is it a conventional best-practice?

[0] for example, https://publicdata-weather.firebaseio.com/chicago

[dsl]

Epoch (UNIX, or POSIX) time is how computers keep track of time internally. Programmers like it because it easy to do math on and requires no formatting.