About the representation of time in the tutorial on time series data

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In that tutorial, time is recommended to be represented using a tuple of the different date components instead of a timestamp:

[year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds]

Isn’t that more costly in terms of disk space? The alternative will be to have a library that computes the “timestamp bounds” of a period of time. Now that I write about it, it seems complex.

How do other do represent timestamps in FoundationDB?

Thanks!

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@amirouche This is a great question. Which format did you decide on and how is it working?