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With enough precision in your timestamp, you can base-10 encode arbitrary binary data and shove it in your nanos for debugging.

This is a great tip. One of our QA engineers noticed recently that a particularly difficult-to-reproduce bug was affecting records saved at :21, which is when a particular cronjob hits. Without that extra info we’d probably still be scratching our heads over it.

That's a good idea.