In analytics pipelines, not only do timezones worry me, I find myself anxious about leap seconds and leap milliseconds.
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Replying to @avibryant
@avibryant@posco More like, "I'm moving to Hawaii and not dealing with any unit of time not defined in terms of the cesium 133 atom."1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @peterseibel
@peterseibel@posco did you know: 1s is the half-period of a pendulum whose length is 1e-7 the distance from the equator to the north pole?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @avibryant
@avibryant@peterseibel on some plane accelerating at exactly 1G so that the nonlinearities of gravity are absent?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Replying to @posco
@posco @peterseibel I'll admit to a small fudge factor but it's a neat coincidence. (Those were two competing definitions of the meter.)
11:35 AM - 20 Sep 2014
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