> I'd probably ask what the problem was that created this thought, maybe there's an answer to that instead. OP here. That article is old and I really wish it w

> I'd probably ask what the problem was that created this thought, maybe there's an answer to that instead. OP here. That article is old and I really wish it wasn't on the front page. If I remember correctly, at the time this was written, there were some pretty big outages and failures that originated from apps assuming time was pretty much a linear monotonic value. So the motivation to write this was not only for myself, but to attempt and find a better solution for timestamps as needed by many apps. There is no technical reason for the timestamp to jump around, and to convert to and from "human" time we already need libraries (especially if we're looking at points in the past or the future), so the argument that system timestamps MUST map to actual time of day is somewhat moot. As it is, the Unix timestamp attempts to be somewhat in the middle, in the end satisfying neither computer nor human requirements. So the idea was to separate those two timing formats completely.