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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The thing that breaks me is trying to imagine how time zones will work if we ever put colonies on Mars. But they never talked about time zones, I realize now. Having the clocks count from 00:00:00 to 24:37:22 would be an awkward kludge, but a workable one. Split time zones along every 15 degrees of longitude. Never attempt to figure out what day it is on the other planet without a lookup table.
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Just make martian seconds 428241ns longer that earth seconds
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Just make martian seconds 428241ns longer that earth seconds yes, this then we will still be able to divide by 86,400 to display times in Excel
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I like China's idea of time zones
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OwlFancier posted:Most spiders generally look for three anchor points to attach their webs to, so that's why they tend to build them in the corners of rooms or doorways because they make the right shape. Keeps the Hounds of Tindalos away too.
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Phanatic posted:Keeps the Hounds of Tindalos away too. Racist cats can still get through though
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canis minor posted:I like China's idea of time zones The Swatch internet time school of thought
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Oct 4, 2021 18:55
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Vavrek posted:I keep a couple links handy for talking about abolishing time zones, but that's not what you wrote. I think the author is going about this the wrong way IMO.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The thing that breaks me is trying to imagine how time zones will work if we ever put colonies on Mars. Elon* is just gonna invent a new concept of time with Mars hours. Probably something metric live 10 hours per cycle. The hard part is synchronization with earth, but that's gonna be poo poo no matter what you do because the orbits and rotations are different. Anyway, the thing that bothers me about Australia is *Actually someone not-slaving for him.
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Obviously we just need to make the switch to Stardates.
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Captain DIEgiene posted:Obviously we just need to make the switch to Stardates. 
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The thing that breaks me is trying to imagine how time zones will work if we ever put colonies on Mars. I think you have to totally decouple the two time systems and just look it up, but having that desync actually wouldn't matter much. Those articles Vavrek posted mention a use case of someone in the UK trying to call someone in Australia, but that will never be an issue between Earth and Mars because even at their closest they're still three light-minutes apart, so the closest you could get to "live" communication anyway would have a 6-minute gap between sending a message and getting a response.
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:Racist cats can still get through though the cat was only ironically racist
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Oh yeah, funny charts:
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It’s almost as good as the time the boat was stuck
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Chad accuracy, virgin precision
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Vavrek posted:In Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, they designed all the clocks to just sit at 24:00:00 for 37 minutes before ticking over to 00:00:01. Called it the Martian Timeslip, treated it as a luxury of living on Mars, same as the low gravity. This would break so, so many algorithms and business processes.
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A 37 minute period every day when crimes are legal
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:But for Mars, days are 24 hours, 37 minutes.  That’s Martian sidereal day, the rate at which it rotates on its axis, measured against an inertial reference frame or equivalently the background stars. The equivalent period on Earth is a little over twenty-three hours and fifty-six minutes. We don’t use that on our clocks because it we started the New Year at midnight, by early July, high noon would occur at what the clock said should be midnight. We’d run one day per year fast, because we failed to account for the orbit of the planet about the Sun, or, in geocentric terminology, the Sun’s eastward movement along the Ecliptic (of approximately one degree per day on Earth). On the plus side, Vega and all the other stars not named “Sun” would rise, transit the meridian, and set at the same time every day (for a given point on the planet). Very convenient for astronomers. What you want the Martian solar day, which is, to the nearest minute, twenty tour hours and forty minutes. tl;dr: Yes, we should abolish time.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:This would break so, so many algorithms and business processes. Seconds since unix epoch still exists.
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Just going to drop this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY TLDR: The trick to doing any time related thing, as is the case with most things in life, is to have
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Google’s leap smear is the worst crime against time since BIPM decoupled the definition of the second from the rotation of the Earth in 1960.
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If service restoration has an SLA of 5 business days, and a user on the Moon reports a problem with a server on Mars that's administered by a team on Earth that is in a time zone that will be adjusting their time forward an hour in two days, what time does the SLA breach?
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If service restoration has an SLA of 5 business days, and a user on the Moon reports a problem with a server on Mars that's administered by a team on Earth that is in a time zone that will be adjusting their time forward an hour in two days, what time does the SLA breach? Lmao, who cares, we're not gonna make it anyway, we're just promising things.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If service restoration has an SLA of 5 business days, and a user on the Moon reports a problem with a server on Mars that's administered by a team on Earth that is in a time zone that will be adjusting their time forward an hour in two days, what time does the SLA breach? Depends, are you looking for MST or EST?
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All time should be Unix time. It's not like humanity will last past 2038 anyway.
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Y238k problem
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Zil posted:Y238k problem you joke, but...
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https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1445846653454323725 What the gently caress, Virginia
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That's interesting. Blue eyed people gotta be like ten percent of the US pop.
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Golbez posted:you joke, but... Oh I know, just trying to coin a term, but nothing rolls off the tongue like Y2K. Captain DIEgiene posted:https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1445846653454323725 Where are my hazel brothers and sisters at?
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Zil posted:Where are my hazel brothers and sisters at? Claiming blue, looks like
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The Bloop posted:Claiming blue, looks like Thats quite a stretch, isn't hazel a variant of brown? Mescal posted:That's interesting. Blue eyed people gotta be like ten percent of the US pop. I think it's way more than that and also I would assume most governors are WASPs and thus more likely to have North European traits.
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Zil posted:Oh I know, just trying to coin a term, but nothing rolls off the tongue like Y2K.
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