[Cosmo-dev] eim timestamp format

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:27 PM 1/3/2007 -0800, Brian Moseley wrote:
>it occurs to me that it would be better to represent an eim timestamp
>value as a standard unix timestamp than as a formatted utc date
>string. does that sound okay to everybody?

I don't see any problem with it, although it seems to me that there's no 
reason to have a primitive type for it in that case; we might as well just 
use a "Decimal" subtype with an appropriate number of digits, and no 
decimal places.  (In a similar way to how we currently represent UUIDs as a 
"Bytes" subtype.)