"It’s so predictable that developers will pooh-pooh having to write timezone code, almost as much as it is predictable that some clueless commenter on Hacker News will complain that this page has...
"It’s so predictable that developers will pooh-pooh having to write timezone code, almost as much as it is predictable that some clueless commenter on Hacker News will complain that this page has autoplaying video on it. And then someone will calmly quote this passage in response, quietly pleased with themselves that the initial commenter was rude and certainly didn’t read the post at all. Then a third person will chime in on the thread saying the author was playing you all like a fiddle anyway, and the real problem is that the post was way too long to start with."
This was a very long but informative and interesting read. There was a lot of historical background I did not expect. I can't remember ever thinking of 12pm as not noon. The digital world (at...
This was a very long but informative and interesting read. There was a lot of historical background I did not expect. I can't remember ever thinking of 12pm as not noon. The digital world (at least in Windows) has always specified noon as 12pm and midnight as 12am as far as I can remember.
I prefer the Tonal system: 10 Tims per day, 10 Timtons per Tim, 10 Timsans per Timton, 10 Timmills per Timsan (it goes on). Here's the catch: all the numbers are written in base 8*2 (popularly...
I prefer the Tonal system: 10 Tims per day, 10 Timtons per Tim, 10 Timsans per Timton, 10 Timmills per Timsan (it goes on). Here's the catch: all the numbers are written in base 8*2 (popularly known today as hexadecimal, but tonal has different digits rather than recycling letters).
(Tonal includes systems of measure, etc as well - it replaces the entire decimal framework)
AFAIK the only implementation of Tonal specifically for time-keeping is my replacement open source firmware for Nest thermostats: https://github.com/freeabode/freeabode (I should probably do a KDE...
AFAIK the only implementation of Tonal specifically for time-keeping is my replacement open source firmware for Nest thermostats: https://github.com/freeabode/freeabode
(I should probably do a KDE Plasma widget some day too...)
"It’s so predictable that developers will pooh-pooh having to write timezone code, almost as much as it is predictable that some clueless commenter on Hacker News will complain that this page has autoplaying video on it. And then someone will calmly quote this passage in response, quietly pleased with themselves that the initial commenter was rude and certainly didn’t read the post at all. Then a third person will chime in on the thread saying the author was playing you all like a fiddle anyway, and the real problem is that the post was way too long to start with."
Gave me a laugh.
Is this our first repost? Certainly an interesting read, but it looked familiar!
Noooooo!! I quickly scanned ~comp too see if had been posted and didn't see this!
Maybe time for a URL check on new posts? At least in the same ~...
Timezones are a pain for nearly every programmer at some point! I really enjoyed this bloggers take on the history of time allocation.
This was a very long but informative and interesting read. There was a lot of historical background I did not expect. I can't remember ever thinking of 12pm as not noon. The digital world (at least in Windows) has always specified noon as 12pm and midnight as 12am as far as I can remember.
Since moving to another country that generally uses 24-hour time, after I became accustomed and completely forgot about having trouble with 12am/pm!!
I prefer the Tonal system: 10 Tims per day, 10 Timtons per Tim, 10 Timsans per Timton, 10 Timmills per Timsan (it goes on). Here's the catch: all the numbers are written in base 8*2 (popularly known today as hexadecimal, but tonal has different digits rather than recycling letters).
(Tonal includes systems of measure, etc as well - it replaces the entire decimal framework)
Oh I had not heard of this system, very interesting! Are there any examples of it actually being used or just a thought experiment?
AFAIK the only implementation of Tonal specifically for time-keeping is my replacement open source firmware for Nest thermostats: https://github.com/freeabode/freeabode
(I should probably do a KDE Plasma widget some day too...)
For currency, you can use it with Bitcoin: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tonal_Bitcoin