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Daylight saving creator left the chat.... (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What matters is consistency and our time system has tons of crazy inconsistent shit in our. Everyone knows about leap years, but do you know about leap seconds? Imagine trying to write a function to convert unix time to a current date and suddenly all your times are a second off.

Just look at this insane bullshit nonsense. The added complexity of time zones and daylight saving time is nothing compared to simply supporting our time system.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We need to synchronize all computer times with that one clock that can stay accurate to within 1 second every 40 billion years.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We do? With NTP

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm referring to this one, the most bleeding edge of accuracy. I don't think NIST would have implemented this particular clock (yet).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Incredible list, the scale.

The software will never run on a space ship that is orbiting a black hole.

hmm
A little aspirational?