retiolus@lemmy.cat to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 days agoWorst is UTC vs GMTi.ibb.coimagemessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1910arrow-down150
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minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up41arrow-down4·8 days agoUTC is timezone too. It has leap seconds. IAT is atomic time. It is perfect.
minus-square_NoName_@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·7 days agoUTC has leap seconds to keep it aligned with earth’s rotation. Otherwise all timezones would slowly shift away from having any correlation with solar time. Between UTC and IAT, UTC is the more human-useable and thus better.
minus-squarekakes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up29·8 days agoI say we ditch this nonsense altogether and go back to vague descriptions of the Sun’s position in the sky.
minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days ago“many moons ago, when the sun was low in the sky…”
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 days agoI’d fuck with atomic time, but at that point i want a perfect calendar system also.
UTC is timezone too. It has leap seconds. IAT is atomic time. It is perfect.
UTC has leap seconds to keep it aligned with earth’s rotation. Otherwise all timezones would slowly shift away from having any correlation with solar time. Between UTC and IAT, UTC is the more human-useable and thus better.
The post is about developers.
I say we ditch this nonsense altogether and go back to vague descriptions of the Sun’s position in the sky.
“many moons ago, when the sun was low in the sky…”
Isn’t that UT0?
I’d fuck with atomic time, but at that point i want a perfect calendar system also.