The specification for revision and releases defines timestamps as:
author timestamp (decimal timestamp from the Unix epoch, mandatory): the date at which the revision was authored.
and says they should be encoded as:
the ASCII-encoded decimal representation of the author timestamp,
But the name "decimal" is ambiguous. While it clearly means "decimal digits" in the latter (because it's about serialization), it is unclear to me whether "decimal timestamp" redundantly specifies the representation or whether it means a decimal data type (ie. finite non-integers).
The specification for revision and releases defines timestamps as:
and says they should be encoded as:
But the name "decimal" is ambiguous. While it clearly means "decimal digits" in the latter (because it's about serialization), it is unclear to me whether "decimal timestamp" redundantly specifies the representation or whether it means a decimal data type (ie. finite non-integers).