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