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You have a number: the amount of seconds that have elapsed since some standard moment in time. (Usually the seconds since the start of 1970-01-01, London.) Th
by gorgoiler 5y ago
You have a number: the amount of seconds that have elapsed since some standard moment in time. (Usually the seconds since the start of 1970-01-01, London.)
The have a problem: how do you take this information and use it to render the time on your local time rendering device, in your current legal jurisdiction or place on Earth organized enough to make decisions about time?
tzdata solves this problem.
You’re usually working with a clock with a 12h or 24h output and a minutes output. But what about non-standard time-rendering-devices / wallclocks? Are there cultures that do something different to 24h days, similar to the global diversity in date-rendering?
- robocat 5y ago> Are there cultures that do something different # Unfortunately tzdb records only Western clock time in use in Ethiopia, # as the tzdb format is not up to properly recording a common Ethiopian # timekeeping practice that is based on solar time. See: # Mortada D. If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you'd better double # check the time. PRI's The World. 2015-01-30 15:15 -05. https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-30/if-you-have-meeting-ethiopia-you-better-double-check-time https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-30/if-you-have-meeting-e...
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoI guess it's not worth the headache having your own clock if you want to deal with the rest of the world, but in S. Arabia it was once common to set your watch to 6 am at sunrise: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/43dbb43381487a253fdc4462c0bdce073f79e286/asia#L3537 https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/43dbb43381487a253fdc4462c0...