in reply to Re: Year 2038
in thread Year 2038

In my not-particularly-humble opinion, times and dates should always be stored in UTC. Then whatever program it is that uses those times and dates - your automagic bill payment thingy, your user interface etc - should convert to and from the local timezone as necessary.

Having everything stored in UTC makes it easier to figure out what's going wrong when you make the inevitable mistakes.

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Re^3: Year 2038
by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Jan 06, 2006 at 10:33 UTC
    Nah, UTC is too complicated - it's linked to the earth rotation, both around its axis and around a well known star. You'll have to deal with leap seconds and such - and, if the Americans have their way, leap hours.

    Anyone serious about time keeping will use TAI.

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