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Pros: - No increase in heart attacks - Nice fluid shift from month to month - Minor errors less important Cons: - Rewriting of timezone code takes 8 years,
by ravi-delia 6y ago
Pros:
- No increase in heart attacks
- Nice fluid shift from month to month
- Minor errors less important
Cons:
- Rewriting of timezone code takes 8 years, claims over 800 lives as every programmer either quits or commits suicide after working on project for a few weeks
- The staggeringly difficult to detect under low load timestamping errors cause constant stress for distributed systems engineers, making the job among the most deadly in the world.
- wruza 6y agoRe cons, we already have tzdata with all irregularities like DSTs and leap seconds built in. I believe that it wouldn’t be so hard for libraries who already use tzdata. And those who don’t, they couldn’t handle time intervals properly anyway.
- adolph 6y agoWhat's wrong with just using NTP? http://www.ntp.org/rfc.html http://www.ntp.org/rfc.html https://pypi.org/project/ntplib/ https://pypi.org/project/ntplib/ https://www.npmjs.com/package/ntp-client https://www.npmjs.com/package/ntp-client https://www.nuget.org/packages/Rebex.Time https://www.nuget.org/packages/Rebex.Time