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Re:Lessons of JSON by ominous_prime on Monday April 30, 2012 @02:11PM (#3910491)
It would be ambiguous, since you need to know what timezone the timestamp is from. This is why most applications use ISO8601.
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Re:Lessons of JSON by Cushman on Monday April 30, 2012 @02:16PM (#3910521)
Unix time is always UTC, isn't it?
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Re:Lessons of JSON by ominous_prime on Monday April 30, 2012 @02:35PM (#3910640)
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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