Falsehoods programmers believe about time
Tim Visée,
GitHub,
Oct 21, 2020
I have to admit I laughed to myself when an experienced programmer I respect said in a meeting, "Calendars are solved." Back then (and to this day) I must use (and synchronize manually) two separate calendars, one for work and one for home. And when we're talking about programming involving date-time and calendars, well, you're almost certainly going to have to rely on a calendar library, which may or may not have considered all the problems listed in this article. It's a good quick fun read and will give you a new appreciation of the complexity of time.
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