The aversion to human-readable timestamps is that he's using TAI to encode the t...

simtel20 on March 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (2009)

The aversion to human-readable timestamps is that he's using TAI to encode the timestamp so you don't e.g. get human-readable timestamps that have the same second twice after a leap second because the format is unambiguous in this regard.