Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

Re:Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS by collectively on Saturday November 18, 2017 @11:21PM (#15732226)

At some point, a kilobyte was 1024 bytes. Now, a kilobyte is 1000 bytes, and 1024 bytes is a kibibyte.

I mean, it does make sense. But it just sounds off to me.

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Re:Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS by seanp2k2 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:56AM (#15732494)

Hard drive manufacturers have been doing this for decades. This is why the “80GB” drives were 74.5GB in Windows.

It’s more complicated with SSDs: https://www.anandtech.com/show/2829/7

EDIT: the official “kibibyte” was standardized in 1998: https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html so almost 20 years ago. Blame Windows and HDD mfgs for sticking with the SI definitions.

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Re:Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS by sd8dgf8ds8g8dsg on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:38AM (#15732618)

Yea, bad bad windows for following standards.

The SI prefixes are well established before 1998 and the cause for this brainmelt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

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Re:Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS by CodesInChaos on Sunday November 19, 2017 @05:08AM (#15733179)

Windows (at least up to 8) does not follow the SI standard. It uses KB, MB, GB but converts using 1024. Which has funny consequences, like 999MB being smaller 0.94GB.

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Re:Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS by collectively on Sunday November 19, 2017 @03:11AM (#15732853)

Well to be fair “GB” could refer to either prefix.

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