- To: Peter Hardy <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Time Pedantry (was Re: [SLUG] Which bank doesn't use Linux servers?)
- From: Adam Kennedy <adamkennedybackup@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:35:13 +1000
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Of course, that brings up the issue of WHAT day it is, and the need to
cleanly support non-gregorian calendars. And the next thing you know,
incrementing by a day involves half a CPU second because you need to
run a physical model of the orbit of the moon to work out if you are
at a month boundary.
Adam K
On 1 April 2010 16:11, Peter Hardy <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> None of this would be a problem if we'd just switch to decimal time in a
> single timezone and call it a day.
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