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We have already rolled out UTC. Literally, we: servers are mostly UTC. As for the time zones that descend from UTC, they're nowhere near gone: the idea might l
by Piskvorrr 7y ago
We have already rolled out UTC. Literally, we: servers are mostly UTC.
As for the time zones that descend from UTC, they're nowhere near gone: the idea might look appealing if you have Greenwich in your backyard, but everybody else is going to have a bad time. Introducing a breaking change "12 PM is not anywhere near noon" after hundreds of years is bound to be as successful as decimal time - I mean, we're still dealing with the fallout from Julian to Gregorian time migration, and that one started in 1582!
- scrumbledober 7y agoIn what ways are we dealing with the fallout from Julian to Gregorian time migration?
- Piskvorrr 7y agoA simplified case: how many days are there between Jan 1, 1918, and now? Trick question! Depends on where you ask - USSR transitioned to Gregorian calendar in 1918, dropping Feb 1-Feb 13. (Actually data format which stored dates as "days since 1900-01-01"...in an undefined time zone - years are the same length everywhere, right?) Anything that deals with historical data still has to deal with this...the same way that Y2k38 started biting in 2008, because people do have calculations that extend for decades from the present. And those are both actual date computation quirks which I have personally met, in code; that's not to mention the cultural weirdness of "Red October" happening in November.