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Time is huge. You cannot get it right in all cases. You can only get it right for your particular case. If you try to get it right for all cases, you waste reso
by a3n 12y ago
Time is huge. You cannot get it right in all cases. You can only get it right for your particular case. If you try to get it right for all cases, you waste resources on something that mostly doesn't matter, and dwarf your other resources.
Time is not just calendar apps, or cron. Consider relative dates in historical studies that span past, present and future.
Study the fuck out of your use case, get it right, don't worry about others' opinions and don't think that your solution applies generally to most other use cases.
Also, among the many resources for general and specific solutions to time problems is "Calendrical Calculations," by Dershowitz and Reingold. I found it randomly, bought it on a lark, and hope to $DEITY I never haver to care about time for anything critical.
http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=calendrical+calculations http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=calendr...
- davotoula 12y ago$265.90 Bought it on a lark??
- mordocai 12y ago$39.59 on amazon for the paperback, new. $116.90 on amazon for the hardcover, new.
- a3n 12y agoReally? Wow. I was cruising the shelves of SoftPro books (back when they had shelves and a physical presence). The sticker on my copy says $32.99. Well, the link I provided was to a worldwide library catalog, you should be able to interlibrary loan it to your branch if you're interested. Or you can get a copy on Abe Books for pretty cheap. http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Calendrical+calculations http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Calen... But no, my upper lark limit is considerably lower than $265.90. :)
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