Comment on descriptions of Demons and the arcane rituals required to banish them feverishly relayed by occultists in ghost/horror stories are a direct homomorphism to computers and actually how awful they are

distantsounds@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, it’s still like that. Mexico just got rid of DST which resulted in some fun bugs at my workplace. And then there’s this Lunar Standard Time thing being proposed… why it can’t just use UTC, I’ll never understand…

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  • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you suppose folks on the moon will shift the clocks by an hour twice a year as well? I don’t like the idea of moon kids having to walk to school in the dark during the winter.

    But for real tho, maybe there are some tiny time dilation effects that require a separate time system for lunar missions. But I’m not sure, I’m not a physicist.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  there’s an actual whole book about date and time in PHP: php|architect’s Guide to Date and Time Programming

  I remember an inside video about the topic in general too, but don’t remember enough details to find it. It’s like nations have decided to mess up times and dates on purpose.

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