Obligatory falsehoods programmers believe about time:
https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...
In a nutshell if you believe anything about time, you're wrong, there is always an exception, and an exception to the exception. And then Doc Brown runs you over with the Delorean.
Marty!! We have to go back...
to string representations!