![]() ![]() This, like all of the problems with time, is political. There’s something like 39 timezones at time of writing. Spoiler alert! Nothing is neat and orderly when it comes to time. ![]() And if we do have timezones, the obvious thing to you is to split the world up into twenty four timezones, one for each hour in the day, so it’s all very neat and orderly. Okay, now that we got that tomfoolery out of the way, we start asking questions about what time should look like. In fact, the title of this post is wrong: UTC isn’t enough for everyone you should get rid of UTC and move all your servers to use Swatch Internet Time instead. So you’re starting out fresh, building a completely new global time structure.Ĭlearly, since you’re a programmer, you already have an innate distrust of timezones, so you’re going to get rid of them entirely, a la Swatch Internet Time, which demonstrates why you are the beautiful human you are, you dashing human you. Then a third person will chime in on the thread saying the author was playing you all like a fiddle anyway, and the real problem is that the post was way too long to start with. And then someone will calmly quote this passage in response, quietly pleased with themselves that the initial commenter was rude and certainly didn’t read the post at all. It’s so predictable that developers will pooh-pooh having to write timezone code, almost as much as it is predictable that some clueless commenter on Hacker News will complain that this page has autoplaying video on it. Types of time zones code#This complicated everything, and made obvious the notion that writing timezone code was some of the worst things you have to do in our field. Now we had to deal not just with one time (here), not two times (here and there), but a multitude of times, all interacting with each other (everywhere). Once we started getting planes and trains and automobiles, we had movement, we had transportation, we could be in two distant places within hours. There was a hidden implicit part of the question we were never asking: And for a long time that was fine, but that wasn’t entirely the question we were asking. This became important to know when you could finally head home after work, for example (answer: never early enough). Everything we just covered revolves around a single question: What time is it?Īt a certain point we started asking this question. ![]()
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