Re: consistency

[Michael Shields]

> Many of us cannot convert from Unix time to human readable time on the fly
> ;)

Yes, but the code to convert from human-readable to machine-readable
can be substantial, as is the code to convert from human-readable to
human-readable-in-ISO-8601 or human-readable-in-localized-format.
Converting from Unix format to any other is trivial given commonly
available tools.
-- 
Shields.