Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
by shadowgovt on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:11PM
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And FWIW, every major company does have to support a thousand novice devs, every year, over and over, forever.
Honestly, this issue screams education problem. "Time is a mess" should be taught alongside buffer overflow attacks and networking theory (in fact, networking theory is a great place to teach "time is a mess," because you can roll it in alongside ideas like "simultaneous action is a lie" and "clocks are always wrong anyway").
Time may change forwards and backwards, because my computer clock may be fast or slow. The same logic to correct for leap seconds, can be used if my computer is 2 sec fast.
And your code had better handle it, and the os, libraries, it really is only hard ), if you have to support 1000s of novice devs.