as the current time. It's nice to know whether the talk request you
see was sent just a few minutes ago (assuming you didn't hear the
bell), or if it's been decaying for days (weeks?).
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
