Rails allows calling `to_s` with an optional format argument on dates. This can lead to cryptic "wrong number of args" errors when you end up calling something like `http://nil.to _s(:db)` Using the alias `to_formatted_s(:db)` leads to a much nicer "no method error"
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Huh, so they created their own epoch?
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Creating your own epoch is pretty common. PG stores time as a 64 bit integer representing microseconds since 01-01-2000 (also I was mistaken in my other tweet, OSX is since 2001)
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If you're creating your own time format, epoch + counter is the most sane way to do it. Much nicer than trying to do some kind of human-readable thing.
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