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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by IggleSniggle on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:42PM (#19925152)
I like the cut of your jib. But I suppose what I was saying was that, for the purposes of establishing “now”, “now” isn’t really standardizable except with respect to a single inertial frame, and any time-keeping that occurs outside of this inertial frame will not be absolutely in sync, even though it may have a highly accurate measure of time for its own inertial frame.

This matters when computers are bouncing records about time around satellites and across the global.

Edit: I have no idea what I’m talking about so please do not hesitate to correct me on the particulars!

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