> I can't think of any unix programs that use anything other than human readable dates and times in their outputs, for instance. Maybe, but look at the date di

> I can't think of any unix programs that use anything other than human readable dates and times in their outputs, for instance. Maybe, but look at the date display code in the GNU core-utils for instance, it depends on the locale and everything, not quite minimalistic. I understand your point but it is inconsistent with the rest of djb's way. It does not mean that it is invalid in general, but that this "human-unreadable" log files in djb's code are actually a good idea in the mindset/framework of djb's code.