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I think that's a bit of a weird take... date and time are all about numbers, and there just isn't infinite storage, even non-technical people understand that wi
by whilenot-dev 2y ago
I think that's a bit of a weird take... date and time are all about numbers, and there just isn't infinite storage, even non-technical people understand that with ease. I think paranoia comes into play when people throw their hands in the air to soon.
We usually encode text into numbers, not numbers into text. Numbers are understood across languages: 12 is more applicable than December and even makes the arbitrariness of things more visible (being off-by-one is usually just a matter of specification). Numbers and computers are among the most reliable and predicable applications of concepts we have, no?
All that being said, I'm looking bright into our future[0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bu...