1103
Daylight saving creator left the chat.... (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by devilish666@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
246 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

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

[-] deur@feddit.nl 13 points 7 months ago

We do? With NTP

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 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).

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 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?

this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
1103 points (96.2% liked)

Programmer Humor

19594 readers
874 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Feyter@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
pylapp@programming.dev