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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by tomrod on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:24PM (#19925344)
The earth doesn't travel the same course each year. It's chaotic.

Best to define a second as a certain distance light travels in a vacuum and use that to build minutes, hours, etc. Then, have a fixed geo reference point (like, say, geo 0:0) that holds an atomic clock as a main reference.

We are only really talking about local coordinate changes in the time dimension, really, so might as well simplify.

Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by chithanh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:53AM (#19928480)
> The earth doesn't travel the same course each year. It's chaotic.

I would prefer to call it quasiperiodic.

Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by tomrod on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:45AM (#19929497)