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pothibo on Aug 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

From a developer standpoint, I loathe our calendar/time system.

The world has wasted shit load of time & money trying to fix stupid bugs with our time systems, I would welcome a more linear system.

fsck--off on Aug 2, 2013 | [–]

You might enjoy Naggum's A Long, Painful History of Time:

http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html

Groxx on Aug 2, 2013 | | [–]

"enjoy" or "remind you of those gaping wounds that never really healed and you may have forgotten about them but NO!"?

mosburger on Aug 2, 2013 | [–]

Meh, a lot of that is buried away in libraries and stuff and I never worry about it.

Time zones on the other hand...

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