Timeline for "Position" is to "space" as what word is to "time"?
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| Mar 31, 2018 at 5:16 | comment | added | Adam Smith | I agree with @LightnessRacesinOrbit; timestamp is not the analog of the concept of position, it's analogous to numerical coordinates with some finite limits on precision, way of recording a time as data. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 23:13 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @smci: But not, in my opinion, in the context of this question. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 21:45 | comment | added | smci | @LightnessRacesinOrbit, that's technically true, but in the context of (say) analyzing user behavior from server logs, the terms are essentially interchangeable. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 12:55 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 28, 2018 at 12:54 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | A "timestamp" is a sequence of characters that represent a description of an instant or moment in time as recorded against some event. That is not the same as the actual instant or moment itself. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 12:53 | history | answered | Roman Odaisky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |