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🆕 blog! “A little oddity in the way curl deals with old dates”
For boring technical reasons, computers think the world began on 1st of January 1970. To keep track of the future, they count the number of seconds since that momentous date. So zero seconds represents midnight on that day.
So how do computers deal with dates before The Beatles' Abbey Road was …
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Never Write Your Own Date Parsing Library, by @zachleat:
Never Write Your Own Date Parsing Library, by @zachleat:
Oh wait, what if we just measure time based on the angle the sun is above the eastern horizon?
E.g.
* I’ll meet you at 35º for a coffee.
* It’s 150º, so time to go home for the day.
No need for summer time, since it’s self rectifying.
:-D