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> > That is still not self-describing - is it time, or just a number?

> That's the beauty of it: time is just a number (of seconds since 1 January 1970).

Having a bare number where the units and zero point rely on out-of-band information is not self-describing.



JSON has never been self-describing. Literally every use of JSON is fundamentally dependent upon some degree of out-of-band information.

If you want something self-describing, maybe look into XML?




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