In reality I always use a string. And always in the format YYYY-MM-DD with the optional addition of hh:mm:ss. This means a full date-time is only 19 bytes instead of 32 or 64 since 95% of the time I don't need the millisecond accuracy of epoch time.
YYYY-MM-DD
hh:mm:ss
Actually iirc, Unix time is 64 bits, not bytes. That means it’s only 8 bytes.
Yep. My mistake.
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In reality I always use a string. And always in the format
YYYY-MM-DDwith the optional addition ofhh:mm:ss. This means a full date-time is only 19 bytes instead of 32 or 64 since 95% of the time I don't need the millisecond accuracy of epoch time.Actually iirc, Unix time is 64 bits, not bytes. That means it’s only 8 bytes.
Yep. My mistake.