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What makes you say that? I suppose you could add as much complexity as you want with differentiating units from different standards and adding uncertainty in th
by dktoao 6y ago
What makes you say that? I suppose you could add as much complexity as you want with differentiating units from different standards and adding uncertainty in the unit definitions and on and on. But for 99% percent of users, just conversion factors and basic arithmetic operations are all that is needed. What application do you have in mind where this would fall short? In 15 years as an engineer I have not run into one.
- mmphosis 6y agoWhat day is it? Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept. leap years, leap seconds, julian dates, pre-gregorian dates, years beyond 9999, yyyy-mm-dd vs d/m/y vs month day year vs ..., zero padding, 12 hour vs 24 hour, 32 bit time stamps, DOS time accurate to every two seconds, why does excel need the date time in a specific format, I dual boot between Windows10 and Linux and every-time I boot up Windows10 the first thing I need to do is adjust the date time, pico-second granularity, time zones, daylight savings time, ... Today is Stability (4), Flint (Tijaax * Etznab) It's a good day to: Spend time in reflection and introspection.
- majewsky 6y agoWhat are you talking about? The topic is unit conversion, not datetime libraries.
- dktoao 6y agoDon't disagree that datetime libraries that are used to control computer networking are immensely complex. Never said they weren't. However: 1) That is not what we are talking about 2) Sometimes you just need a stopwatch, timing applications _can_ be simple