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What’s the best representation you’ve seen for dates?



Hasn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 basically won, at this point?


UNIX timestamp. Plus timezone string, in separate field/column, if it's important for the use case (like calendar events, etc).


Epoch time + GPS coordinates.

That's as unambiguous as you could possibly make it IMO.




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