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So, were you on the Concorde, or was it a Tu-144?
The terminator is only that fast near the equator. Further north, " ... it is possible to walk faster than the terminator at the poles, near to the equinoxes. The visual effect is that of seeing the Sun rise in the west." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(solar)
I'd question #34 on this list somewhat: while formats like mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy definitely allow ambiguous interpretations, the ISO format yyyy-mm-dd seems fairly unambiguous; I've never seen any instance of yyyy-dd-mm floating around to confuse it with.
Some more falsehoods: 1. Time never goes backwards (as other people have pointed out, time zones break this). 2. UTC time never goes backwards (as other people have pointed out, leap seconds break this). 3. The system boot time never changes. On most platforms, the current time is defined as "boot time plus uptime", and setting the current time is performed by changing the boot time. 4. System uptime never goes backw…
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Well time would be unidirectional, right? The computer clock might not be.
Ooooh, nerd time! If you are moving faster than the speed of light, you are perceiving whatever you are moving away from in reverse, because the light you are seeing was generated before when you left. (you are passing into light that is older than the light you started with). In terms of space-time, you would then be going backwards in time, if your point of reference for time was the Earth (and hint, given that we…
Wasn't there a post about how 1 day this year will be 1 second longer? Can't remember it... leap second?
1. The year is 2012. In Thailand, the year is 2555. In Malaysia, the year is 1433.
2. But surely that is not used on computers and the web? http://www.railway.co.th/home/Default.asp?lenguage=Eng (look on the right side: "booking can be until : 18/8/2555"
Some more falsehoods: 1. Time never goes backwards (as other people have pointed out, time zones break this). 2. UTC time never goes backwards (as other people have pointed out, leap seconds break this). 3. The system boot time never changes. On most platforms, the current time is defined as "boot time plus uptime", and setting the current time is performed by changing the boot time. 4. System uptime never goes backw…
UTC time does not go backwards. Leap seconds are implemented as a minute with 61 seconds.
1) implementing their own DateAdd functionality in c# and forgetting about leap years.
2) thinking the app server and db server's time would never get out of sync.
Fml he was so bad I wanted to kill him almost every day and got paid quite a bit more than me
My recent favorites wrong assumptions: 1. The year is 2012. In Thailand, the year is 2555. In Malaysia, the year is 1433. 2. But surely that is not used on computers and the web? http://www.railway.co.th/home/Default.asp?lenguage=Eng (look on the right side: "booking can be until : 18/8/2555"