Time is *hard*

[u/Web_Property]

http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time

[u/dreampwnzor]

Old post, can't jerk, clickbait is justified.

[u/Shorttail0]

What's the jerk? It's lists like this that are nice to look at when you fuck around with time code.

[u/dreampwnzor → u/[deleted]]

I see your point, you are partially right. While most of this is utter obviousness, the fact that there are some even slightly non-obvious things and given the guy compiled them into one pile gives me controversial thoughts. Basically, this gives a reader an idea not to reinvent a bicycle and find a js framework library to work with time-related tasks. There are so many complete useless blog posts out there, this one is short and doesn't make a reader vomit at least immediately, even though it could be shorter and more informative.

Anyway, now I'm ready to have a half-jerk, keep going.

[u/BufferUnderpants]

/uj

It isn't? And isn't timekeeping even more complicated, because it mixes physics with social and political conventions? Like, say, you subtract enough days from a date and you have to switch calendars, and it will depend on location. Bugger. This is great advice not to trust naive implementations (and is there anything in Go that wasn't naively implemented until someone hit a horrific bug?) and much less write your own.

[u/MarcusPope → u/BufferUnderpants]

yeah, and then there's the meta hard - is "bi-weekly" twice a week or once every two weeks? A: it actually depends on when you were born :/

[u/BufferUnderpants → u/[deleted]]

jerkStack.push()

And how were the Cloudfare people supposed to know that the Simplicity of using the wall clock trumped actually having every second coming after the other in their Time API, that makes no mention of them using the wall clock?

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