4 posts tagged ‘Time’
Storing Times for Human Events
mjtsai,
Simon Willison: What’s wrong with calculating the exact UTC time the event is starting and storing only that? […] It’s surprisingly common for countries to make decisions about DST with very little notice. Turkey and Russia and Chile and Morocco are four more examples of countries that can often cause short-term chaos for software developers […]
Taligent’s Guide to Designing Programs
David Goldsmith (1994, PDF, via Hacker News): If you browse the computer section of any technical bookstore, you’ll find many good books offering advice on how to do object-oriented design—books dealing both with general design principles and with design principles specific to C++. Why then does the industry need another book, one targeted not only […]
These US cities have the worst traffic and Los Angeles isn't even in the top five
Boing Boing,
If you're one of the 1.4 million people who drive to work in Los Angeles, the average time you spent sitting in traffic each year is around 95 hours. That may seem like a lot but Los Angeles isn't even in the top five US cities with the worst traffic—it's number seven—according to traffic data and analytics company INRIX. — Read the rest
Relative Time Labels
Nikita Prokopov: Why is nobody excited about these “yesterday”/“2 days ago”/“a week ago” labels?Because they pretend to speak human language, but they actually don’t. For a human, yesterday is “at the day before”, “between 0am..11:59pm the day before today”.No human uses “less that 24 hours” as the definition of “yesterday”. Computers, unfortunately, do. Add here […]