I think programming-induced trauma about time zones may be inheritable.
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Wait until you teach her about unix. Its time we programmers make the entire world use seconds from jan 1st 1970.
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“Why seconds from that date? Isnt that arbitrary?” “For the good of society, we of The Code forever ban you from using computers or software of any kind” It can work guys.
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> As long as humans live in more than one part of the world, solar time is always going to be subjective. Eureka! We can just shove everyone in a single 15° section of the earth! Once everyone lives in the same timezone there won’t be any need for timezones!
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She just invented UTC.
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For a brief period, a video chat between my son and my parents always started with "go outside" followed by "Aaaaw they have the sun now!" or "yaay we have the sun!"
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Was on a family roadtrip as a child crossing thru time zones & daylight savings discussing w my 1 year older brother trying to comprehend time given only info that it changes like that. when we were crossing a state border I closed my eyes bracing myself for time travel lol
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What would the time be on Mars?
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This question reminds me of the idea that “now” only makes sense locally. There is no shared “now” if you compare far away enough. https://qz.com/1279371/this-physicists-ideas-of-time-will-blow-your-mind/ …pic.twitter.com/mxP2zrvCdp
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