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The two most difficult things in programming; dealing with time, naming things, and boundary conditions.

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dealing with time

Network engineer here, it’s just as bad here. Currently trying to figure out what to do with ‘gaining’ a negative leap second. In 2025, we may lose one for the first time in digital history.

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Do you not have NTP?

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Absolutely. I’m a ddi engineer. NTP plays a huge part in my work. Systems, including ntp, are designed to handle leap seconds. Negative leap seconds are uncharted territory. I could go off on a long rant about it, but I doubt people care that much. It’s really dry stuff.

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I forgot what the N stands for in NTP, but the network engineer might know.

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Time I can deal with, timezones however, fuck that shit all to hell.

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Insert that Numberphile video with Tom Scott being reasonably angry at time zones.

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