What about time can you depend on?
You can't. Time is a completely relative concept. If you expect order, use a sequence.
Exactly.
Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time
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Actually, almost no country outside the British Empire (and not even Scotland inside it) implemented the Gregorian reform at the same time. Britain was pretty late in doing so, too. As for "all modern computer systems", Unix time is completely ignorant about anything except seconds.
> Unix time is completely ignorant about anything except seconds. In hindsight, it seems like a brilliant decision.
But then we had to go and make it care about leap seconds...