The problem would be, I think, when your business logic is concerned with some subtle aspect of Russian, you translate into canonical English and the detail you

The problem would be, I think, when your business logic is concerned with some subtle aspect of Russian, you translate into canonical English and the detail you're interested in disappears. When it comes to timestamps, how do you handle midnight for example? 24:00 today represents the same instant as 00:00 tomorrow. The difference might matter to the user but disappears when converted to Unix timestamps.