On: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (2012)

[elmigranto]

Sure is a problem when you are writing a system for processing stocks, not really if you are making a calendar app or ecommerce website.

I guess what I mean is that things like that are a nice piece of trivia, little fun facts, but nothing to be concerned of for most of us.

[aardvark179 → elmigranto]

Until you assume midnight one day plus 24 * 3600 seconds will equal midnight the next day. These kinds of problems will bite you in all sort of places you don't think you need to worry about them.