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		Cushman on April 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons of JSON Unix time is always UTC, isn't it?

ominous_prime on April 30, 2012 [–]

Yeah, it is. I was thinking that since it just a raw number of seconds with no TZ designation, that there's too much room for incorrect implementations using localtime.

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