Unix Timestamp Problems
The cluster focuses on pitfalls and limitations of Unix timestamps in programming, including bit width issues, epoch assumptions, leap seconds, precision loss, and references to common falsehoods programmers believe about time.
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What is wrong with standard unix timestamps?
timestamps are rarely the answer
Is this about timestamps or is there more to it?
I"m just going to leave this here: https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...
No one, but you probably keep timestamps with seconds.
Ah! The infamous 33 bit timestamps!
Send it to the very fires of hell from whence it came. Or use 64 bits to store timestamps.
We also have a unix timestamp issue coming up.
Wouldn't those operations reduce the accuracy of the time stamp?
More Falsehoods programmers believe about time: https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...>