Unless someone wants to suggest a way to make an index which causally sorts to whole DB, removing published-at timestamps is not an option. Restoring your DB, or syncing for the first time would be a nightmare otherwise

Re: format, Piet and I have started using ISOStrings for timestamps in scuttle-poll :

> new Date().toISOString()
'2018-06-09T02:03:18.707Z'

What we've noticed so far:

• a human can read them
• they can still be queried against because ISO time stamps are ordered Large >> Small !
  • bytewise / charwise comparison which the flumeview level uses works