I was so skeptical of this title and after reading the article, it actually makes a lot of sense. I'm still skeptical of the solution. I wonder about just picki

I was so skeptical of this title and after reading the article, it actually makes a lot of sense. I'm still skeptical of the solution. I wonder about just picking a timezone and storing all timestamps relative to that timezone - doing the conversion at input. It seems that X seconds since 1970 in place Y should be unique.