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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by killjoywashere on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:19AM (#19928230)
think of it as ordinal: you're shifting left 1 unit, not moving the line, per se.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by thefringthing on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:07AM (#19928621)
Still matters because some places want to make sure it's the same day (according to their local reckoning) as it is somewhere else in particular (usually a major trading partner).
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by beojan on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:53AM (#19929047)
Or the next town over.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by beojan on Sunday May 19, 2019 @02:23AM (#19951779)
The other boundaries are a lot straighter.

Imagine what would happen when the International Date Line ends up in the middle of the US.

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