Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
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Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#2The perils of living on a spinning oblate sphere strike again!
Software would be so much simpler on a ringworld ...
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#3The perils of living on a spinning oblate sphere strike again! Software would be so much simpler on a ringworld ...
Or an infinite frictionless plane in a vacuum
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#4'Falsehoods programmers believe about time:
- Every day has a sunrise and a sunset'
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#5My old Garmin eTrek something-or-the-other had a feature which would compute local sunrise and -set.
It threw a fit and rebooted when I asked it for sunset while at 78 degrees north in June.
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#7'Falsehoods programmers believe about time: - Every day has a sunrise and a sunset'
Right? I am reliably put into this weird emotional state of being simultaneously entertained and chagrined at the propensity for technologists (and I very much include myself in this criticism) to make these kinds of assumptions, and the edge-case bugs that fall out of them.
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#8'Falsehoods programmers believe about time: - Every day has a sunrise and a sunset'
It exists, it's just complex-valued.
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#9reminds of the Computerphile Tom Scott video "The Problem with Time & Timezones"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
and why I will never implement datetime myself