While looking at a database I inheritted I noticed the database has tables
with integers used to store epoch.

I noticed that timestamp is 8 bytes and was wondering how come timestamp is
8 bytes and not 4. Is it to be able to support precission beyond a second?

I am looking at tens of millions of rows, which is why my predecessor may
have used integer to store epoch to save space.

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