Re:A year should have 13 months
by 1970-01-01 on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:47PM
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Its not a perfect fit. New Years would arrive at a slightly different time every year, and ignoring the massive software rewrite, we would have issues with things like GPS satellites and other stuff. Its too late.
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I thought GPS satellites utilized milliseconds since epoch instead of a string date
Re:A year should have 13 months
by 1970-01-01 on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:16PM
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It's not the GPS spec, it's the EPROM flying through space that now needs upgrades to sync itself.
why would it be relevant for the GPS to switch calendar we have converters between the various current ones, afaik to switch to a 13 month calendar we would only need to software updates for dirt side devices
Re:A year should have 13 months
by 1970-01-01 on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:39PM
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Satellite has an OS. OS needs to know and log things. 2028-13-13 does not compute, and all time would require a translation layer. This layer needs to work in hardware, because space is hard and when things break it can't be rebuilt. So each sat could have a hardware box on the ground, making new timestamps from old, but it would just be easier to run with the current calendar until we become a true space civilization.