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There's a lot of epoch love in the comments. For me, it's never "clicked". I assumed that after seeing a ton of timestamps that I'd have a Neo-seeing-the matrix moment with timestamps but it just hasn't happened. Can you all easily decode them?

Is there talk anywhere of using a human-readable timestamp instead? e.g. YYYYMMddHHmmssSSSSZ

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Sure there is. But since it is not a continuous range there are the fixed separators --T::. between the parts. It is the javascript time format, which is a subset of the RFC3339 and ISO8601 time formats. The separators help at least to allow for a variable amount of sub-second digits.

The hyphen and colon separators are optional though, so YYYYMMDDThhmmss.ssssZ is a valid ISO8601 format.

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