As a software engineer, I would like to add that we are done dealing with time and dates and Martians and Moonfolk better pick UTC and shut up or they aren’t touching the database.

[–] lunarul 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Timezones are one thing. Accounting for relativistic drift will be a whole different problem.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m glad I’ll be dead before I have to think about dates and times that hard. I’ll never forgive that one island that moved the international dateline or the parts of the United States that don’t follow daylight savings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nobody should follow DST. It's archaic and outdated.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Yes, but it would still be easier if people in similar areas agreed on whether to follow it or not. Having nesting-doll sections of the map which do/don't follow DST is insanity.

[–] SatouKazuma 3 points 3 months ago

If I have to build a new Python library for relativistic drift, I might actually punch a bitch. 😆

Seriously though, if I had a dollar for every time someone asked me to do the impossible just because I'm a software engineer, I don't know that I'd be rich, but I would have a decent amount of money.