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by jl6 843 days ago
Are you suggesting #2 is sufficiently unlikely to occur naturally that it becomes a likely technosignature of an alien race whose programmers got so fed up with calendrical calculations that they megaengineered their planet’s rotation as a way of streamlining their datetime libraries?
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Programmers with that amount of political power are definitely a sign of an advanced race.
Based on our experience on Earth so far, that seems to be the easier route to correct code.