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Re:Query Real-time SF Bus Locations With GeoFire 2.0 by brianzelip on Monday June 23, 2014 @02:55PM (#7933750)
I'm a (very) novice web dev and have been poking around Forge[0]. I noticed all your time data is expressed in unix time. Do most real-time web apps express time this way? Is it a conventional best-practice?

[0] for example, https://publicdata-weather.firebaseio.com/chicago

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Re:Query Real-time SF Bus Locations With GeoFire 2.0 by dsl on Monday June 23, 2014 @03:23PM (#7933959)
Epoch (UNIX, or POSIX) time is how computers keep track of time internally. Programmers like it because it easy to do math on and requires no formatting.
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