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i feel this in my bones this in my bones, via @nctrost
Oct 1, 2023 at 4:01pmWeb
Show threadDavid PeningtonOct 1, 2023
@eaton From Australia & New Zealand this happens all the time.
Show threadAnnaleeOct 2, 2023
@eaton @nctrost paging @dashdashado
Show threadA.J.Oct 2, 2023
@eaton @nctrost Time zones are the bane of my experience.
Show threadjuv3nalOct 2, 2023
@eaton @nctrost 9 years old, but still evergreen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile

A web app that works out how many seconds ago something happened. How hard can coding that be? Tom Scott explains how time twists and turns like a twisty-tur...

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Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Oct 13, 2023
👆 Computerphile (Tom Scott): "The Problem with Time & Timezones"
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Oct 13, 2023
Thank you to YouTube commenters for bringing up the Swedish Calendar already 9 years ago, so I don't have to. =)
Show threadPeeble streamer on Doop 🟥🟨Oct 2, 2023
@eaton @nctrost damn, yes.
Show threadAndreas NeustifterOct 5, 2023
@eaton @nctrost Can't see that without thinking about the evergreen "Falsehoods About Time" list.
https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca
Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list

Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list - falsehoods-programming-time-list.md

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Show threadKevin RiggleOct 5, 2023
@eaton @nctrost Days since our last Unicode issue: O
Show threadKevin RiggleOct 5, 2023
@eaton @nctrost (yes I know this is not actually a Unicode issue also my mom has horror stories)
Show threadKofu has movedOct 12, 2023
@eaton @nctrost this is my everyday job #abolishtimezones
Show threadDave CollinsOct 12, 2023
@eaton @nctrost I feel that number should not be an integer, say -1.223 days
Show threadLio HongOct 12, 2023
@eaton @nctrost I missed not one but two online events because of this earlier this year. Thanks DST.
Show threadEatonOct 13, 2023
@liohong @nctrost the WORST
Show threadStéphane Charette 🇨🇦Oct 13, 2023
@eaton @nctrost Does that also apply to people who write it down wrong without understanding? Like attempting to coordinate a new meeting between parties, but writing EDT in winter and EST in summer?
Show threadNorma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛Oct 13, 2023
@nctrost @eaton I have a constant issue with DST. Horrible.
Show threadEnema CowboyOct 13, 2023

@eaton @nctrost

Shiver me timbers. I know of ye speak.

Show threadincommunicadoOct 14, 2023
@eaton @nctrost screw this timezone, month, day bullcrap . Let’s adopt Unix timestamp as universal date time around the globe and call everything < 1 bc as in before civilization as there was none before Unix. Just barbarians with stone axes! damit!
Show threadincommunicadoOct 14, 2023
@eaton @nctrost and why should I be sentenced to fixing bugs just to accommodate a measly few billion people unwilling to memorize and increment 10 digits…
Show threadDustin WilliamsOct 14, 2023
@eaton @nctrost I’m in Mountain Time. Most people in Pacific and Eastern won’t mention their time zone and most people in Mountain will write MST all year, despite the fact that most of the year that is Arizona time and not Idaho time. It drives me crazy. I also have a system I check for audits that does some time entries in Eastern Time and some in Mountain. You need context to tell which it is.
Show threadGurre VildskäggOct 14, 2023
@eaton @nctrost I've said it before, I'll say it again:
Vote me planetary governor and DST will be banned, and nowhere is allowed offsets from UTC at anything but full hour increments, and nowhere lower than the Arctic circle is allowed to be more than 1½ hour from local solar time.
Show threadFinley ⓋOct 14, 2023
@eaton @nctrost Yeah, I used to think Joda time (and java time) were needlessly complex. And maybe they still are, but not by as wide a margin as I originally thought.
Show threadFinley ⓋOct 14, 2023

@eaton @nctrost

Also,

Milliseconds since some one used the system clock to measure performance: -100ms

Show threadPeter West CareyOct 15, 2023

@eaton @nctrost @saralobkovich I found an advantage to this just yesterday…or today?

Flew from Hong Kong to LAX and left at 12:05am. Quickly did Sunday Wordle when we pushed back.

Landed at LAX and redid Saturday Wordle because it only checks if you did the puzzle TODAY. And my phone went from tomorrow to today so the cookie said I hadn’t done it Saturday.

Then this morning redid Sunday Wordle in 1 try and looked like a genius to my family.