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Dates honestly terrify me. I am already in a panic state over not having some sort of alternative timekeeping system than the jumbled mess of date formats and i
by kelsey98765431 3y ago
Dates honestly terrify me. I am already in a panic state over not having some sort of alternative timekeeping system than the jumbled mess of date formats and interacting with time zones and unix time is simply unreadable, i wonder if the concept of dates should even still exist anymore. When a global org says "get this in by tomorrow" that could be as little as 4 hours away or 20, and i have to go do math to figure out what people even mean.
Abstracting it even further into NLP is even scarier.
I don't have a solution I just feel deep pain about this as a remote worker dealing with logs and timestamps and who is where, there has to be some different way.
- kitd 3y agoThe most complex piece of code I ever wrote was a scheduler for raising triggers in the a form such as "every 2 minutes, from midnight to 5am, on the Tues and Thurs of each week, unless it falls on 25th Dec", etc, etc. The main problem I recall was that the server running the triggers and the client entering them might be in different time zones, the server having to honour the client's version, and those TZs might have different DST switchover dates, etc. Basically, how humans measure time is psychopathic.