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		altmind on Feb 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are we templating YAML? Except that you cannot encode pretty valid Double.NaN or Date(), which is showstopper for many. I remember mongodb started with json, but switched to in-house bson pretty early because of the json limitations.

CryoLogic on Feb 8, 2019 | [–]

Is there anything wrong with just using Date.now() to get a UNIX timestamp to store and then converting it for presentation on the client?

svnpenn on Feb 7, 2019 | [–]

new Date().toJSON()

altmind on Feb 7, 2019 | [–]

When you parse back the result of this, you are not getting Date back.

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