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Asked: 2026-06-02T09:37:50+00:00

I am building an API that needs a date and I want to represent

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I am building an API that needs a date and I want to represent it using the Epoch.

Since I am developing in C# in .NET the ticks is an easy representation (100 nanosecods).
However, I need also to cater to implementors of the API in other programming languages.

Is the concept of Ticks used other than in C#? Should I go back to milliseconds since Epoch so the API is not designed too much with a .net flavor?

I know how to do the conversions, but I am looking for what makes more sense. My goal is to make the representation of dates easy for any programmer in all languages that may implement this API.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Whether you choose to use XML in your API or not, the standard defined in the XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition is a pretty safe bet. See section 3.2.7, advising a specific version of one of the many ISO-8601 formats.

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