A Relativistic Framework to Establish Coordinate Time on the Moon and Beyond
A Relativistic Framework to Establish Coordinate Time on the Moon and Beyond
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As a software engineer, I would like to add that we are done dealing with time and dates and Martians and Moonfolk better pick UTC and shut up or they aren’t touching the database.
Timezones are one thing. Accounting for relativistic drift will be a whole different problem.
I’m glad I’ll be dead before I have to think about dates and times that hard. I’ll never forgive that one island that moved the international dateline or the parts of the United States that don’t follow daylight savings.
Nobody should follow DST. It's archaic and outdated.
Yes, but it would still be easier if people in similar areas agreed on whether to follow it or not. Having nesting-doll sections of the map which do/don't follow DST is insanity.
If I have to build a new Python library for relativistic drift, I might actually punch a bitch. 😆
Seriously though, if I had a dollar for every time someone asked me to do the impossible just because I'm a software engineer, I don't know that I'd be rich, but I would have a decent amount of money.