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Can we not just fix our systems to run in TAI or GPS time, and convert to UTC (or the user's local timezone) when displaying timestamps, instead of causing civi
by j0057 4y ago
Can we not just fix our systems to run in TAI or GPS time, and convert to UTC (or the user's local timezone) when displaying timestamps, instead of causing civil time to drift off indefinitely? I thought these were the best engineers in the world, go fix the computers then!
- SoftTalker 4y agoThis is the answer. Humans want noon to be when the sun is overhead, and midnight to be the middle of the night. Almost nobody cares about sub-second accuracy or monotonic time. Track it that way internally if you like, but humans want time to correlate to what they see out the window.
- Ekaros 4y agoIt seems there is increasing amount of people who actually want the sun be overhead at 13 and midnight to be at 1... Or even later... So, if we stop actually caring about normal time, why should we care about leap seconds either...
- ncmncm 4y agoThat is what everybody ends up doing, in practice. It is exactly the problem. Why should every software system everywhere have its own complicated, unpredictable, error-prone fudge that benefits literally nobody?