The Stack Exchange API documentation is ever so slightly confusing wherever Unix timestamps are mentioned (*perhaps any ranges, I haven't dug too deeply*) [For instance:][1] > **todate** – Unix timestamp of the maximum creation date on a returned item. unix epoch date, range *[0, 253,402,300,799]* It took me a very brief moment to understand what was intended by the italicized part. For clarity, perhaps this should be edited to one of the following: > ...unix epoch date, *range [0, 253402300799]* > ...unix epoch date, *range [0 .. 253,402,300,799]* > ...unix epoch date, *range [0 - 253,402,300,799]* [1]: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/answers-by-ids