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They should have a global holiday to celebrate the people who maintain time/date related code in OS kernels that keeps the world from imploding.
by t1234s 3mo ago
They should have a global holiday to celebrate the people who maintain time/date related code in OS kernels that keeps the world from imploding.
- radomir_cernoch 3mo agoLol. Exactly!
- ortusdux 3mo agoI like the argument that we should have 12 months that are exactly 30 days long, and then merge whatever is left into a single timeless holiday.
- tialaramex 3mo agoYes, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
- ortusdux 3mo agoBecause of you I have learned the word 'intercalation', and am grateful for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(timekeeping) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(timekeeping)
- BurningFrog 3mo agoThere would be 5-6 days without time every years?
- soiltype 3mo agoI've often dreamed of and revisited this idea. I first started thinking of it seriously when I realized I was paying the same rent in February as in January despite a significantly shorter-than-mean (30.4375) month...! My ideal year is 12 months, each 5 weeks long, each week 6 days long. At the summer solstice, 3 intercalary days (bank holidays), at the winter solstice, 2 or 3 intercalary days depending on leap year.
- vovavili 3mo agoSure thing Charles-Gilbert Romme.
- suspiciousape 3mo agoI thought it was 13 months exactly 4 weeks long, which takes us to exactly 364 days
- mekdoonggi 3mo agoWe could call the 13th month "Undecember"
- raverbashing 3mo agoLol the Kernel is "easy" it's userspace and distributed systems that are a b*tch
- mtoner23 3mo agoThey're cool people but like it doesn't stop the world from imploding. Most of all of our code is full of trivial bugs and edge cases and most people don't mind too much. Certainly no one cares about leap seconds, they hardly even notice DST or leap days