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URL-Safe Timestamps using Base64
Passing around timestamps in URLs is a common task. We usually want our URLs to be as shortest as possible. I’ve found using Base64 to result in the shortest URL-safe representation, just 6 chars. This compares with the 12 chars of the naive way, and 8 chars when using hex representation.
The following Python functions allow you to build and read these 6 chars URL-safe timestamps:
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