Comment by t1234s
2 days ago
They should have a global holiday to celebrate the people who maintain time/date related code in OS kernels that keeps the world from imploding.
2 days ago
They should have a global holiday to celebrate the people who maintain time/date related code in OS kernels that keeps the world from imploding.
I like the argument that we should have 12 months that are exactly 30 days long, and then merge whatever is left into a single timeless holiday.
I've often dreamed of and revisited this idea. I first started thinking of it seriously when I realized I was paying the same rent in February as in January despite a significantly shorter-than-mean (30.4375) month...!
My ideal year is 12 months, each 5 weeks long, each week 6 days long. At the summer solstice, 3 intercalary days (bank holidays), at the winter solstice, 2 or 3 intercalary days depending on leap year.
Sure thing Charles-Gilbert Romme.
I thought it was 13 months exactly 4 weeks long, which takes us to exactly 364 days
We could call the 13th month "Undecember"
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There would be 5-6 days without time every years?
Yes, see also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
Because of you I have learned the word 'intercalation', and am grateful for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(timekeeping)
They're cool people but like it doesn't stop the world from imploding. Most of all of our code is full of trivial bugs and edge cases and most people don't mind too much. Certainly no one cares about leap seconds, they hardly even notice DST or leap days
Lol the Kernel is "easy" it's userspace and distributed systems that are a b*tch
Lol. Exactly!