Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime
marcos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
From the wikipedia:
TCB ticks faster than clocks on the surface of the Earth by 1.550505 × 10−8 (about 490 milliseconds per year)
It’s amazing that this level of detail is relevant to anything.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Without considering this, most people wouldn’t be able to drive anywhere they haven’t been before anymore.
brianorca@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Wouldn’t be able to” is a bit of a stretch, since Thomas Maps existed long before GPS. But it wouldn’t be so easy as it is now.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Most people couldn’t use a Thomas guide in the mid 90s either.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I was about was I navigated using an AAA TripTik to get my mom and younger brothers through an 1600 mile road trip. We also had AAA guidebooks for along the path when I had to help pick a motel along the way because a torrential rain slowed us down. It was a fun game of figuring out how far it was, weather it had enough stars (mom said at least 2, but the more the better), and the best price.
It was the late 80s though, and I didn’t have a game boy, so it was kinda the only form of entertainment.