> It makes me angry that programmers feel that they "own" the concept of time measurement Programmers feel that they "own" pretty much every social construct,

> It makes me angry that programmers feel that they "own" the concept of time measurement Programmers feel that they "own" pretty much every social construct, by virtue of the fact that it is their job to encode those constructs into interfaces and databases. See the famous "falsehoods programmers believe about X" [1] --- and I'm sure you'll like this one about time [2]. [1] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood [2] https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...