Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time
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Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time
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#2Also, time is unidirectional.
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#3Can someone explain #1? I suspect it has to do with crossing time zones?
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#4Can someone explain #1? I suspect it has to do with crossing time zones?
Day light savings transition days. When you skip ahead, that day has 23 hours in it. When you fall back, it has 25.
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#5Can someone explain #1? I suspect it has to do with crossing time zones?
Day light savings transition days. When you skip ahead, that day has 23 hours in it. When you fall back, it has 25.
Also leap seconds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
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#6Can someone explain #1? I suspect it has to do with crossing time zones?
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#7Can someone explain #1? I suspect it has to do with crossing time zones?
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#8Who believes these things? February is always 28 days long? Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month)? A week always begins and ends in the same month?
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#9About #7: doesn't a month always end in the same year it started?
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#10One of my favorites, encountered in the wild: Your system will never need to handle a time before 1970.