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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by psd1 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:55AM (#39931216)
The biggest downside would be the date rolling over during a record-keeping period. But this is already a problem and people handle it just fine. I mean, we say "tonight" for 02:30 on the following day, so meh.
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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by rightbyte on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:35AM (#39941115)
No no no. We can't make the world adjust to our crappy code.

24:00 is "mid night". 02:30 is not less 'tonight' than 21:30, assuming no DST.

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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by iggldiggl on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:46AM (#39942326)
> But this is already a problem and people handle it just fine. I mean, we say "tonight" for 02:30 on the following day, so meh.

Because that only affects the comparatively small number of people awake respectively events happening at that time of day. If you move the calendar date change right into the middle of the waking hours of almost everybody else, things get quite a bit more annoying.

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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by psd1 on Saturday April 06, 2024 @07:46AM (#39951783)
I'm willing to make that sacrifice if we can delete python's time zone library.
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