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A Different Way of Measuring Time: Metric Time (metric-time.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Neat but holy good fucking god the amount of programming it would take if it was ever decided to change this going forward, not to mention how historical times would be referenced. Datetime programming is already such a nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the ~~2000~~ metric switch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lol. Seriously though, for something like this these days, it will be interesting to see what happens given we will have to face the year 2038 problem. This kind of thing was still doable for the 2000 switch because of the relatively small number of devices/softwares, but because of the number of devices and softwares now, let alone in 2038, I really have no idea how it's going to be managed.

[–] Feathercrown 2 points 4 months ago

Although it is only software/devices that are 32-bit