Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time
by chithanh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:53AM
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> 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
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See Laskar's work, mentioned here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_of_the_Solar_Syste...
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.