In my 15+ years of web development, there are very few things I can say are unequivocally a good idea. It almost always does depend. Storing timestamps instead of booleans, however, is one of those things I can go out on a limb and say it doesn’t really depend all that much. You might as well timestamp it. There are pl...

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Storing timestamps instead of booleans is one of those things I can go out on a limb and say it doesn’t really depend all that much. It’s like the exact opposite of YAGNI. You might as well timestamp it future-you will be glad you stored a timestamp instead of that boolean.