From 68f0f5cb8b19e4ee747da7e5119eb9b4e154b737 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Deldycke Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:58:58 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] UT1, TAI and UTC have their shortcomings. Here is a guide. --- readme.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md index 7b43d76..e31c514 100644 --- a/readme.md +++ b/readme.md @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ In a sense, *Falsehood* articles are a suite of wordy unit-tests covering extens - [ISO-8601, `YYYY`, `yyyy`, and why your year may be wrong](https://ericasadun.com/2018/12/25/iso-8601-yyyy-yyyy-and-why-your-year-may-be-wrong/) - String formatting of date is hard. - [UTC is Enough for everyone, right?](https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right) - There are edge cases about dates and time (specifically UTC) that you probably haven't thought of. - [Storing UTC is not a silver bullet](https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/) - "Just store dates in UTC" is not always the right approach. +- [How to chooose between UT1, TAI and UTC](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047376) - Depends on your priorities between SI seconds, earth rotation sync, leap seconds avoidance. - [Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/6841479/57311) - Infamous Stack Overflow answer about both complicated historical timezones, and how historical dates can be re-interpreted by newer versions of software. - [Critical and Significant Dates](https://web.archive.org/web/20150908004245/http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/critdate.htm) - From Y2K to the overflow of 32-bit seconds from unix epoch, a list of special date to watch for depending on the system.