-Programming is no longer an elite's task. The care for smart algorithms, memory usage, CPU-time usage and the like has dwindled in comparison with the early, scientific era of programming. Just look at, how many web developers represent time - it is not uncommon for web developers to send an entire textual representation of time as 30-something actual letters inside a JSON document with an actual textual key. This is just awful. We have had standardized, time-zone neutral representation of time in binary, efficient, 4-byte (or more commonly the 8 byte variant) representation since the 1970s. It's called unix timestamp and is an elegant and efficient way of representing time-zone neutral time down to the seconds.
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