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btipling
on Jan 19, 2013
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Some Notes About Time
Your API should return Unix time. The end.
Dylan16807
on Jan 19, 2013
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Because when someone wants millisecond resolution the best answer is an integer number of seconds, right?
mmahemoff, are you using actual milliseconds, which means you have to keep track of leap seconds?
mmahemoff
on Jan 20, 2013
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In my case, that level of precision isn't the consideration. I'm just expressing Rails' created_at and updated_at fields as integers instead of ISOs.
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