On 14 Jan 2015 at 23:13, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: 

> On 14 Jan 2015, at 10:40pm, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Of course, this is just at the theoretical level. As yo said, your app
>> probably wouldn't need to worry about this.
>
> I think a previous poster had it right.  If you need to do lots of maths with
> the timestamps store unix epochs as INTEGERs (or Julian dates if you care only
> about date and not time).  If, on the other hand, your database is read
> directly by a human a lot, store the dates as ISO format in TEXT.

I would have thought that storing them as integers and then presenting them in 
a user-selected format is much more user-friendly.



--
Cheers  --  Tim
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