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Re:Date parsing performance on iOS (NSDateformatter vs sqlite) by objclxt on Saturday September 07, 2013 @08:07AM (#6344812)
The other major advantage of using ISO 8601 is it's human readable. Very few people are going to be able to look at a Unix timestamp and convert it in their head (...if you can that's a good party trick).
Re:Date parsing performance on iOS (NSDateformatter vs sqlite) by ycombobreaker on Saturday September 07, 2013 @04:19PM (#6346448)
I deal with epoch timestamps on a daily basis, and this is my go-to command:

  $ date -d @1378585039
  Sat Sep  7 20:17:19 UTC 2013
Re:Date parsing performance on iOS (NSDateformatter vs sqlite) by greenlakejake on Saturday September 07, 2013 @11:27AM (#6345318)
You must go to weird parties.