pridkett/govscigraph — Issue #1: Change dates to be timestamps rather than strings
Author: pridkett
Created: 2012-02-20 22:58:24+00:00
State: open

Right now dates are set as long text time stamps (e.g: "2012-02-17T19:00:09+0000"). While this format is machine parsable, it actually takes quite a bit of CPU horsepower to do it. Also, it uses a LOT of storage in the database. Changing this to something like seconds since the start of the epoch, would be more compact and more useful as it would allow simple time calculations to take place without the use of date/time parsing.