Preferred way of persisting timestamps for platform-neutral consumption

Preferred way of persisting timestamps for platform-neutral consumption

References

Reference NO 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15204335/preferred-way-of-persisting-timestamps-for-platform-neutral-consumption

Reference NO 2

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jodatime?page=5&sort=newest

Reference NO 3

http://www.datadisk.co.uk/html_docs/ejb/ejb3_persisting.htm

Reference NO 4

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh771389.aspx

Reference NO 5

http://openjpa.apache.org/builds/1.0.4/apache-openjpa-1.0.4/docs/manual/manual.html

Reference NO 6

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2326.txt

Reference NO 7

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14214/chapter1.htm

Reference NO 8

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ahf4/02510428.pdf