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This is why we should ignore time zones as much as possible. UTC is almost OK, except for the shitshow idiocy of leap seconds. There's no reason for all of us t
by MichaelGG 11y ago
This is why we should ignore time zones as much as possible. UTC is almost OK, except for the shitshow idiocy of leap seconds. There's no reason for all of us to suffer just so astronomers can use civil time.
- techdragon 11y agoBut Astronomers don't actually use "Civil Time" they tend to use either UTC, TAI, or for the continuation of record keeping over the last several hundred years... 'Terrestrial Time'... None of which match up with any Civil Time anywhere on the world, except UTC which does so only periodically for some European countries, and year round in the following countries which resist the idiocy of shifting their clocks around based on the Season: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Leone, Togo, Western Sahara (not technically a country but that's unrelated to the currently customary timezone), Greenland, Iceland, Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha
- Symbiote 11y agoPerhaps you might spend a few moments contemplating why those countries in northerly latitudes use DST before calling us all idiots.
- MichaelGG 11y agoBecause they're are not enlightened enough to change schedules to suit humans, so instead they play games with clocks. (Canadian here.)
- laut 11y agoUTC can also fail if your users need to see or enter times that are not in UTC. E.g. for a meeting or a train schedule or an appointment etc. See this http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/03/19/persisting_future_datetimes.html http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/03/19/persisting_future...