There has to be an obvious answer to this..
I'm looking for a platform-neutral time representation that's easy to
manipulate. I'ld tentatively decided to go with some string representation
in the interest of portability, but a numeric representation makes things
like sorting much more convenient and avoids the need for yet another time
parser.
I'm sure this is a solved problem. Can anybody point me to a numeric time
solution that runs on MacOS, Unix, and Windows?