In the settings.md and other reference materials in this repo, there are a few codec options that accept the special value UNITS_SINCE_EPOCH.
They have this text:
the unit and the epoch to use can be specified with `codec.unit` and `codec.timestamp`.
I think this is supposed to say epoch, not timestamp, because codec.timestamp doesn't set the epoch to use:
the unit and the epoch to use can be specified with `codec.unit` and `codec.epoch`.