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Unix epoch time in UTC, making sure that your local offset and drift are current at the time of conversion to UTC…

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That’s fine if T1 and T2 include a datetime with the exact local timezone. A simple timestamp or timestamp + utc offset won’t work.

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Because “relativity” isn’t even close to your biggest problem with time. The way we communicate time changes historically, unpredictably, without obvious record. The only way to know what time you’re talking about is to know exactly how you got your information. What location, measured at what time relative to recorded changes in the local time zone, with how much drift relative to the last time you synchronized to which ntp server, and so on. These things easily account for hours or days of error, not just nanoseconds.

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You should care if it’s wrong.

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Clock drift? No. Time zones? Probably.

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Time zones change. Relative times without time zones don’t make sense.

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I notice it didn’t come in a box. Didn’t want the packaging to upstage the present. Smart.

Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy?

Earlier in the pandemic many news and magazine organizations would proudly write about how working from home always actually can lead to over working and being too “productive”. I am yet to collect some evidence on it but I think we remember a good amount about this....

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I wish I had the same setup at work as at home. My home dev environment cost 5 times as much.

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I don’t hate it as a concept, but I recognize that it contributed to my burnout during the pandemic. I would personally prefer a hybrid schedule over pure WFH.

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