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Honestly, no idea if this is an April Fool's Day prank or not. Seems reasonable, but inconsistent naming makes me suspicious.
by kevwil 6y ago
Honestly, no idea if this is an April Fool's Day prank or not. Seems reasonable, but inconsistent naming makes me suspicious.
- wongarsu 6y agoCoordinated Mars Time (MTC) is an actual thing [1]. The abbreviation follows from UTC, which is abbreviated that way because English speakers wanted CUT (coordinated universal time) and French speakers wanted TUC (temps universel coordonné), so we compromised on an abbreviation that works in neither language (I wish I was joking). The commit going on to call the config TZ=MCT could totally be a typo that will persist for eternity, just like the "referer" header. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars#Coordinated_Mars_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars#Coordinate...