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>It's frustrating that programmers want to redefine civil time just because it is "hard". This article glosses over the real world problems that detaching from
by 1970-01-01 4y ago
>It's frustrating that programmers want to redefine civil time just because it is "hard". This article glosses over the real world problems that detaching from UTC will cause.
Yes, the actual problem exists, and ignoring/discarding reality (i.e. the "science" in computer science) will just cause further problems. If you and your modern stack of code can't handle the leap second, it's simply not production code.
- alecbz 4y ago> the actual problem exists I mean this is the whole contention. Meta's claiming this isn't actually a problem worth solving.
- ncmncm 4y agoMoreso: it is not a problem that dealing with the nuisance that is leap seconds even solves. It is supposed to match civil time to astronomical time, but astronomers don't use it. It just makes things even more annoying for astronomers, and annoys everyone else, over and over again, for no benefit to anyone.