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ominous_prime on April 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lessons of JSON

It would be ambiguous, since you need to know what timezone the timestamp is from. This is why most applications use ISO8601.

Cushman on April 30, 2012 [–]

Unix time is always UTC, isn't it?

ominous_prime on April 30, 2012 | [–]

Yeah, it is. I was thinking that since it just a raw number of seconds with no TZ designation, that there's too much room for incorrect implementations using localtime.

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