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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.]

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[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago

This one is good (or evil, depends on how you see it):

Human-readable dates can be specified in universally understood formats such as 05/07/11.

[-] elvith@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago

That one's really good.

Which one is it?

July 5th 2011
May 7th 2011
July 11th 2005
November 7th 2005

And is it 2011/2005 or rather 1911/1905, 1811/1805,...?

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