More falsehoods programmers believe about time; “wisdom of the crowd” edition

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

Over the past couple of years i have spent a lot of time checklist debugging other engineers test code this was interesting work occasionally frustrating but always informative one might not

Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones

Every day has 24 hours

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time

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Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time

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Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones

I decided to make a time zone converter it had seemed like an easy project but i was horribly mistaken

Your calendrical fallacy is thinking…

Time Zone Database

Erik Naggum — A Long, Painful History of Time

You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform

You advocate a solar lunar lunisolar approach to calendar reform your idea will not work here is why solar years are real and the calendar year needs to sync with them solar days are real and the calendar day needs to sync with them the

So You Want To Abolish Time Zones

Laudable let s take a look at some of the changes that arise from this through a simple case study making an international phone call to a relative before abolishing time zones i want to call my uncle steve in melbourne what time is it there google tells me it is currently

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

Rounding Error In Computer Code Leads To $26,000 Overcollection By Labor Department

Vermont s department of labor accidentally overcollected 26 000 in unemployment contributions from businesses across the state because of a rounding

RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601

Comparison between rfc 3339 and iso 8601 date formats

ISO-8601, YYYY, yyyy, and why your year may be wrong

The end of the year is rolling around and it s time to remind everyone about that yyyy works the way you think it does and yyyy does not here s a quick example to start just because y

UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right?

Programming with dates times and timezones is hard but here s some help

Storing UTC is not a silver bullet

Note this is a pretty long post if you re not interested in the details the conclusion at the bottom is intended to be read in a standalone fashion there s also a related blog post

What we’d like to have: 1. Use SI seconds 2. Keep in sync with earth rotation 3.... | Hacker News

Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?

If i run the following program which parses two date strings referencing times 1 second apart and compares them public static void main string args throws parse exception simple date format

JRS - Critical and Significant Dates - J R Stockton

Critical and significant dates