Really, we should all develop our own custom epochpic.twitter.com/sFUwo4LiSj
programs don't ask, "what time is it?" they ask, "how many seconds has it been since 1970?", and i think that's beautiful.
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Based on stonewall, yes
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imagine millions of programs working tirelessly to translate inputs in thousands of formats and hundreds of languages to determine how their current state relates to a single fixed point in time and space
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i don't have to imagine it.
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This sounds like a good prompt for a Doctor Who episode. Humans or aliens who ask for time this way because ~something ominous~ happened in 1970.
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the ominous thing was the invention of Unix it was indeed extremely ominous
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In one of Vernor Vinge’s books, future humans assume that the count is since the first moon landing, which is close enough for folks who don’t even know where Earth is anymore
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Well, but it's "how many seconds since 1970 began in London, ignoring leap seconds that have been appended along the way..." Time is hard.
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excluding leap seconds not in the present day
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Is it unreasonable that I hate the date 25:59:59.999 Dec 31, 1969?
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Wait... 25:59?
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