Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time

Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by jondubois on Thursday May 16, 2019 @02:26AM (#19926660)

We should abolish local time too. There should be a single time for every country which is the number of milliseconds since either the beginning of human civilization, the beginning of earth or the universe.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by teddyh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:15AM (#19927370)

So You Want To Abolish Time Zones

https://qntm.org/abolish

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by iainmerrick on Thursday May 16, 2019 @03:38AM (#19926935)

A. Why?

B. If you want to be super strict about it, as I imagine you do, that scheme would hit problems with relativistic effects. Local time is the only real time.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by lozf on Thursday May 16, 2019 @04:33PM (#19932886)

Mean Julian Days (MJD) are the agreed standard for something like that. Abolishing local time has a number of issues as linked in other comments. The time standards we currently have are all well suited to their purpose, it's just a case of picking the most appropriate one for the task. (Plenty of room for more TAI in modern technology).

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by adrianN on Thursday May 16, 2019 @04:04AM (#19927051)

I like Swatch Internet Time.

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