I'll answer with a pair of questions: - what range of dates can you represent using a 64-bit integer to nanosecond precision? - what range of dates can you represent using a 64-bit integer to millisecond precision?
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Ben Southwood <bensouthw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are there any packages that can handle "Unix style" times? How come Julia > can only handle seconds in 0.4.5 and milliseconds in 0.5 (unstable)? > Shouldn't we just aim big and go all the way to nanos? > > For example, it would be great if I could handle the following times. > > 2015-12-11 09:46:40.882362Z > > 2015-09-11 14:37:12.960014+01:00, > >