Re:Let’s Stop the Unix Time Insanity
by nl on Monday December 02, 2013 @07:26PM
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Precise timekeeping for dates over 100 years old is not usually required
Agreed.
though perhaps you work in an area that is an exception?
Thankfully, no. These days I rarely have to deal with dates at all. I still have the scars though..
I find the anomalies extremely interesting for their own sake.
They aren't entirely gone in the modern world, either. Mount Athos is one of the weirder ones, but Ethiopia still uses a calendar similar to the Julian calendar[1].
More practically, though I suspect that in almost all places with non-conventional calendars you can probably use a normal Gregorian calendar too and people will convert for themselves.
Agreed.
though perhaps you work in an area that is an exception?
Thankfully, no. These days I rarely have to deal with dates at all. I still have the scars though..
I find the anomalies extremely interesting for their own sake.
They aren't entirely gone in the modern world, either. Mount Athos is one of the weirder ones, but Ethiopia still uses a calendar similar to the Julian calendar[1].
More practically, though I suspect that in almost all places with non-conventional calendars you can probably use a normal Gregorian calendar too and people will convert for themselves.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar