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In my 20 years of working with software and distributed architectures, no problems have been harder than working with time zones and calendars. It is truly nig

In my 20 years of working with software and distributed architectures, no problems have been harder than working with time zones and calendars. It is truly nightmarish stuff. I am convinced you could run a very profitable consultancy specializing in debugging date and time related problems in people's systems.

zrobotics 8y ago
That would be profitable, but I'm not convinced anyone could stomach that job without going insane. Maybe a year if you were extremely hardy, but I'd be running for the padded cell after 3 months of dealing with nothing else.
chopin 8y ago
Character encoding can be equally scary.