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- NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish27 days
“We already have daylight saving where we change by an hour and no one gets bothered about that,”
What the fuck. EVERYONE gets bothered about that!
I can actually get behind this leap hour idea, but holy crap that is a bad way to present it
- Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish27 days
I know this is intended to help, but as a software Dev who does work where absolute time between two arbitrary clock times does need to resolve to the second… This is that xkcd comic about a 14th standard.
- otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish27 days
This was a vote to basically say “the future will deal with it”.
An hour is a long time! This means that, in an area that observes DST, they could be off by 2 hours. Not to mention China’s one timezone situation.
I feel like a leap minute would’ve been more reasonable to deal with. Unless they’re just betting on humans not needing computers (or, uh…time tracking) by the time a leap hour would be relevant
- NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish26 days
I agree about leap minute, I really don’t see why they leaped (ha) straight to an hour.
Well, I kinda do - working with whole-hour offsets is kind of a solved issue (timezones, DST) whereas there isn’t really a solution for a minute. The clever people at Google (IIRC) came up with the “smear second” as a pretty elegant way to implement a leap second, but the same approach wouldn’t scale all that well to a full minute. You’d have to smear it over 2 months or something.
But if the time does come to implement a leap hour, that’s going to be just as hard to deal with! You basically have to redefine UTC to be what was previously UTC+1:00, and then what? Computers can’t deal with that any more than that can deal with 61 seconds in a minute.
- Tanoh@lemmy.worldEnglish26 days
There are already timezones with 15 min offsets. 15, 30, 45. India standard time for example is +5:30 from GMT.
- 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish27 days
3 hours. Some places are in the wrong timezone for economic reasons. Lot’s of western european countries should be in GMT according to longitude.
- Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish27 days
Spain is in CET even though most of the country is at the same longitude as the UK. Time zones have been turned into a political concept more than a purely geographic one.