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by dfee 1272 days ago
Came here looking for a comment suggesting these discrepancies. I was not disappointed.

See also: “Falsehoods programmers believe about time”

https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...

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Hey meaniehead... I added offsets to the hour hands for +30 and +45 timezones!
Can anyone recommend a book that discusses in depth all the peculiarities of timekeeping, time zones, historical efforts for measuring time, etc.? I would love to read something like that and I feel that there are many stories to be told.
It’s a long post, not a book but still a great resource on this topic:

https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right