[swift-users] Date and Data

[Quinn "The Eskimo!"]

On 3 Aug 2016, at 23:43, Travis Griggs via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:

> I realized right after I wrote this, that I could also
> 
> typealias Timestamp = Date
> 
> And reap similar benefits.

Yeah, of the two NSDate is the one that’s misnamed IMO.  The name gives the impression that the value is somehow related to the calendar, which it isn’t.  NSTimestamp, NSDateTime, NSAbsoluteTime, and so on would all be better.

Of course, fixing this would be… challenging.

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