"Just use Unix time!" Some problems have a surprising amount of inherent complexity. Java has tried a few times to solve date values, and the results are someti

"Just use Unix time!" Some problems have a surprising amount of inherent complexity. Java has tried a few times to solve date values, and the results are sometimes unusably complicated. I don't know what the answer is... an even more sophisticated type system? A linting step in the tool chain? An academic paper? An industry publication? Hardware improves every month, but some parts of software worked better thirty years ago.