The problem is that most people can't read that along with the French somehow never being able to convince the world to adopt decimal time.
Heh… It can't represent UTC (leap seconds). Implementation weirdness like not being able to represent dates outside the 32-bit second counter range due to using a 32-bit second counter. The occasional need to store the TZ the timestamp is relevant in/to.
> It underpins basically everything in datetime database entries.
It does do that.
> The problem is that most people can't read that
This is why I prefer RFC 3339 or ISO, in that order.
> along with the French somehow never being able to convince the world to adopt decimal time.
Somehow. :)
maybe in space, but 2038 will have an interesting time warp.
Nothing wrong with the format itself.
Nobody has ever heard of "the French" undertaking such a project. And if it had ever happened, it would most surely have been a particular Academy or the like. Not the 65M people under your careless swipe.
Wasn't meant as some slight against the French, completely the opposite hey, honestly think they had the right idea, the rest of the world got it wrong...and... that's very much a minority opinion these days. Some things are just ingrained into everyone I guess.