alt Hacker News> What's wrong with Unix?
When you read 847548, is that a number or is that Saturday, 10 January 1970?
Having a type removes that ambiguity. It would be more JSONish for it to be human readable, maybe @1970-01-10T19:25:48.
> What's wrong with Unix?
When you read 847548, is that a number or is that Saturday, 10 January 1970?
Having a type removes that ambiguity. It would be more JSONish for it to be human readable, maybe @1970-01-10T19:25:48.
Or maybe extend this with types for the timestamp, `@ms:1623132000` or `@unix:1623132000`, so in a value: `{"now":@unix:1623132000}`
Mongo types the field name, `{"$date":1623132000}`, if I'm not mistaken. Rust style would be `1623132000_unix`.
Or with anticipation of a more full typing system, where the time is explicitly named:
`{"now": unix:1623132000}`
For now, when I need typing, I use https://json-schema.org