I concur with Ladona on the subject of unix timestamps. They’re a completely unintuitive format.
I’d like to ask wiser and more experienced Magisters if the absence of the ampersand is normal in this subclause:
The name of the statute is “Standard Date & Time Act”, after all.
Regardless, Luck does point out the fact that there’s an issue with clutter in our legislation. That’s something that I fully agree with him on, and would wish to see reduced where possible. In striving to include Ladona’s suggestion to guarantee that the standard for dates and time is consistent throughout more than just our legislation, I’ve attempted to incorporate it into the Law Standards Act like so:
Section III. FORMATS
[…]
6. All official deadlines must follow this standard, with date formats using the Discourse standard (YYYY-MM-DD, Universal Coordinated Time, UTC) wherever applicable. Examples are displayed in Appendix A*.
…1. All dates used for official purposes on The Forums must follow the format YYYY-MM-DD, where YYYY is the year the event will occur, MM is the month the event will occur, and DD is the day the event will occur. Examples of this are displayed in Appendix A.
Really, I would welcome a combination of the two statutes into one similar to the above.
*This Appendix A would have to be added, naturally.