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xkcd #2867: DateTime
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It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]
We use datediff in sql and let God handle the rest.
"Oh but they're in different time zones" "Oh did you account for if one is in day light savings and other isn't" "Aren't some of these dates stored in UTC and some local?"
Are all problems I do not care about.
This is why we should just move to a universal time zone and stop with the day light savings.
We have that, it's called Unix time, and the only thing it doesn't account for is time dilation due to relativity.
it's perfect
If your system hasn’t been upgraded to 64-bit types by 2038, you’d deserve your overflow bug
Let's just nake it 128-Bit so it's not our problem anymore.
Hell, let's make it 256-Bit because it sounds like AES256
64 bits is already enough not to overflow for 292 billion years. That’s 21 times longer than the estimated age of the universe.