retiolus@lemmy.cat to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoWorst is UTC vs GMTi.ibb.coimagemessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up1937arrow-down151
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minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up41arrow-down4·3 months agoUTC is timezone too. It has leap seconds. IAT is atomic time. It is perfect.
minus-squarekakeslinkfedilinkarrow-up29·3 months 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-up2·3 months ago“many moons ago, when the sun was low in the sky…”
minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoNo it doesn’t. “Time zones around the world are expressed using positive or negative offsets from UTC, as in the list of time zones by UTC offset.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time Time now in UTC is 10:33, no matter where on the planet you are.
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 months agoUTC is expressed using positive or negative offset from IAT
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoI’d fuck with atomic time, but at that point i want a perfect calendar system also.
minus-square_NoName_@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months 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.
UTC is timezone too. It has leap seconds. IAT is atomic time. It is perfect.
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?
No it doesn’t. “Time zones around the world are expressed using positive or negative offsets from UTC, as in the list of time zones by UTC offset.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
Time now in UTC is 10:33, no matter where on the planet you are.
UTC is expressed using positive or negative offset from IAT
I’d fuck with atomic time, but at that point i want a perfect calendar system also.
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.