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This is why I really like logical clocks: by abandoning the primitive and outdated concept of "time" altogether, they allow you to deal reliably with causality,
by pjscott 14y ago
This is why I really like logical clocks: by abandoning the primitive and outdated concept of "time" altogether, they allow you to deal reliably with causality, which is often all you're really interested in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clocks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clocks
That said, UTC timestamps since the epoch are one of the more straightforward ways of dealing with time, if you must sully your hands with the foul concept of time at all.
- maw 14y ago> That said, UTC timestamps since the epoch are one of the more straightforward ways of dealing with time, if you must sully your hands with the foul concept of time at all. Definitely. Leave their rendering to the experts, but to store times and dates in any other way is indefensible.
- rmc 14y agoUTC timestamps since the epoch Since we add leapseconds, and UTC includes those leap seconds, it's hard to know "time since the epoch". For example, unix/posix time is not the number of seconds since the epoch.