“Falsehoods programmers believe about time” is InfiniteUndo’s riff on Patrick McKenzie’s classic Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. It’s quite an eye-popping and mindbending riff on the malleability of time inside the world of computers, where a minute can last longer than an hour, where clients and servers may disagree about the time by an order of decades, and where production systems might routinely change timezones.
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