alt Hacker NewsYou're still just talking about client conversion on the write instead of the read. A Unix epoch is a UTC timestamp. That number is not time-zone-less it's just in the default computer time zone.
You're still just talking about client conversion on the write instead of the read. A Unix epoch is a UTC timestamp. That number is not time-zone-less it's just in the default computer time zone.
I'm referring to a "datetime", which should be a data type which stores a date, e.g. "2026-09-28", and a time, e.g. "16:58:18". The unix epoch is not relevant here, unless you _want_ to store a UTC timestamp. You could store a UTC timestamp also as ISO 8601, which is not a number. But this is not related to the timezone-less datetime I'm talking about. To make my points more clear, just imagine the datetime is stored as a string "2026-09-28 16:58:18" with no implied timezone whatsoever.