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masklinn
on May 16, 2019
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Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time
Ah yes, the spherical cow of software development: it's much simpler to build software which interacts with nothing and especially no
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Dylan16807
on May 16, 2019
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There's definitely something to be said about overengineering though. No human is going to notice if the clocks all drift together by 1 second per year.
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