Kicking this community off with a classic: Tom Scott’s increasingly unhinged rant about the absurdity of computer timezones!

  • Nausiyan
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    2 years ago

    This is why I was the crazy kid at school who falls asleep listening to 5,10,15,or 20mhz on shortwave for the coordinated universal time and lived completely off UTC regardless of daylight savings or standard or whatever timezone.

    • chaoraceOPM
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      2 years ago

      That’s… quite hardcore. I imagine that the current-day equivalent would be living off the unix timestamp lol

      • Nausiyan
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        2 years ago

        Well speaking of… my journal entries use Unix timestamp in milliseconds. Soooo… that’s a small look into my insanity.