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> Data that’s harder for humans to inspect and verify is also more prone to errors, especially small passive errors that go unnoticed. Programmers who have to d
by vacri 11y ago
> Data that’s harder for humans to inspect and verify is also more prone to errors, especially small passive errors that go unnoticed. Programmers who have to debug such data are humans. Harder for them means harder to debug, means more bugs that survive longer. QED.
This is apparently an argument against UTC, but I think it's an argument against local time instead - humans comparing times stored in different timezones causes a lot of errors.