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Based on the articles I've read on Spanner it doesn't seem like time zones will hold them back, no matter how frustrating their calendar UX is.
by bearcobra 10y ago
Based on the articles I've read on Spanner it doesn't seem like time zones will hold them back, no matter how frustrating their calendar UX is.
- maerF0x0 10y agoMy guess is AI will only use UTC. No timezones needed. Timezones are so humans can all get to work at 9AM no matter where they are on the planet. If humans were ok with getting to work at 12:00AM and eating "dinner" at 7:00AM etc it would be fine. Some timezone would look like usual 9-5 and the rest would adapt.
- suls 10y agoI doubt they do anything about TZ in Spanner since GPS time is not UTC (no leap seconds). In fact, UTC isn't even mentioned once in the paper. What is mentioned however is the TrueTime API that models `Clock.now()` as intervals rather than a fixed timestamp.