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- Timezones
- They are not always on the hour
- Difference time offset and timezone
- (locale stuff, formatting, DST transition dates, etc.)
- Daylight savings
- Days can be 23 or 25 hours long
- Countries change their DST rules all the time
- Dates, times, datetimes
- Maybe you don't actually want to store full timestamps for literally everything
- Time math is tricky
- Adding 24 hours != adding one day (leap days / seconds)
- Calendars
- Historical calendars are very weird (kings just removing or adding days when they felt like it)
- The calendar we use, and its extensions: Gregorian calendar, proleptic Gregorian calendar
- Other calendars: Jewish calendar, Chinese lunar calendar (?), Hijiri
- Primarily used for establishing holidays, but not really for common use any more (with the exception of China...?)
- Computer clocks
- CPU time vs. wall time
- Monotonic clocks
- Two kinds on Linux: one that smears forward, one that does not
- Jiffies
- Atomic clocks
- NTP / chrony
- Useful specs:
- NOBODY USES ISO8601 STOP SAYING THAT THEY DO
- NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IT IS
- RFC3339 IS THE ONLY ONE ANYONE SHOULD USE
- Accuracy of onboard clocks
- Quartz oscillators - subject to drift
- How to correct inaccurate clocks
- Time smearing
- Presentation and formatting?
- The UNIX epoch, and the year 2038 problem
- ISO "week date" (does this matter to anyone)
- Falsehoods I think are actually important
- "Always store time in UTC"
- "Always store fully-qualified timestamps" i.e. datetimes with timezone, not just dates
- "The smallest unit of time is X" (i.e. store the start and end of your time ranges precisely, never store 11:59:59)
You get a time you trust - then you work with it in some way (???)
- https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
- https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/11/open-source/time-appliance/
- https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project/tree/master/Open-Time-Server/
- https://lettier.github.io/posts/2016-04-26-lets-make-a-ntp-client-in-c.html
- https://audiogramii.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/time-smearing/
- https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/leapsmear.html
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/look-before-you-leap-the-coming-leap-second-and-aws/
- https://sudonull.com/post/29903-Writing-a-Simple-NTP-Client
- https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-device-drivers/9781785280009/4041820a-bbe4-4502-8ef9-d1913e133332.xhtml
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
- Official timezone database: https://www.iana.org/time-zones
How to use dates and times
Time accuracy / how to get accurate times
Fun tangents
East Asian countries treat birthdays differently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning. In particular, Koreans (and others??) all celebrate their birthday on January 1, and start counting at 1 instead of 0.