Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime
steventhedev@lemmy.world 11 months agoHere’s the shortlist of horrors I’ve had to deal with in my career:
- Mixed US/ROW short date formats - DD/MM/YY, MM/DD/YY
- mixed timezones in the same column
- the wrong timezone (marked as PDT but actually UTC, or sometimes the other way around)
- clock drift
- timezones again…because timezones suck
- historical timezones
- NTP configurations
Things I’ve read about but haven’t needed to deal with personally:
- leap seconds
- clock slew vs skip
- hardware clocks
- PTP
Narrrz@kbin.social 11 months ago
it's all relative anyway