On 2012-03-15, at 11:54 AM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:

> 
> On Mar 15, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 2012-03-15, at 11:41 AM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dave A's point still stands though.  The ID is unique, but not necessarily 
>>> in any particular order.  I'd go with a dateCreated column populated in 
>>> willInsert() or init().  Using the pk to determine the date created is just 
>>> sloppy and will come back to haunt Rich one day.  If Rich wants something 
>>> that's easy to sort with JSON, then I would suggest formatting the date as 
>>> a value that sorts easily and send that down to the client.  YYYY-MM-DD, 
>>> date.getTime() or something.
>> 
>> 
>> I agree.  Using the PK as anything other than a fully meaningless "that one" 
>> indicator is doing to bite you.  Hard.  I just don't see the point of 
>> creating a second meaningless key to hide the first meaningless key (PK).
>> 
>> 
>> Chuck
> 
> Uh oh... I think we both just agreed with Dave A! 

Must be getting closer to 12/12/12


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