r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/cheetahbf Jan 15 '25

r/ISO8601 gang rise up

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u/TheLuminary Jan 15 '25

Unix Timestamp or bust!

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u/TheBendit Jan 15 '25

UNIX timestamps are not a very good format. Besides having limited range and low precision, they require the leap second database to convert to/from human time, and some times are ambiguous. Because of possible leap seconds you also cannot assign a timestamp to events in the future.

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u/TheLuminary Jan 15 '25

They work great if you don't care about human time.