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agree with everything except... unix time, really? Unix time has all sorts of weird potential problems, including year 2038, historical inconsistent handling of leap seconds[1], more.

ISO8601 or bust!

Other than that, yes, I think there are things about REST and REST-like API's that are not clear and subject to debate about best way to do it -- but none of them are mentioned in this post, these are the floor, yep.

[1]http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html



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