> That last reason is the main and really only reason why you would prefer it to a Unix timestamp. I think this sort of argument is a bit shortsighted. Using I

> That last reason is the main and really only reason why you would prefer it to a Unix timestamp. I think this sort of argument is a bit shortsighted. Using ISO timestamps brings with it the semantics of including UTC offsets in pretty much every operation and historically date library APIs have had their ways of confusing consumers. Sure you can read the data without having to convert them in troubleshooting. You also will end up troubleshooting more because somebody somewhere used a library call that discarded an offset or something similar.