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bjb568

12:00 AM

SE seems to be unborked.

"GMT" WHAT IS THIS THING

WHAT'S WRONG WITH UTC?

hichris123

It's the same thing.

GMT = Greenwich Mean Time

bjb568

Yeah, but it's weird if they use GMT and UTC in the same sentence.

hichris123

UTC = United Time Coordinated??

bjb568

I get it.

hichris123

That... doesn't quite work, but...

@bjb568 Where?

bjb568

12:03 AM

stackstatus.net

hichris123

Coordinated Universal Time -- how does that turn into UTC?

bjb568

French or something.

hichris123

@bjb568 Huh yeah that is weird.

Jon Ericson

@bjb568 Sorta.

bjb568

Huh.

nice pic d00d

Any reason why querystring breaks onebox?

hichris123

12:07 AM

We are about to re-join our DR data center into the secondary SQL cluster. We *hope* this has no impact.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 6, 2015 at 12:06 AM

Brace for impact.

tchrist

@bjb568 Which is the WTF timezone again?

Feeds

We are about to re-join our DR data center into the secondary SQL cluster. We *hope* this has no impact.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 6, 2015 at 12:06 AM

tchrist

@hichris123 Because they needed to choose something that didn't offend either the English by being French nor the French by being English, so they chose something that was wrong for both. I'm not kidding: this is the true reason.

bjb568

@tchrist All of them.

hichris123

@tchrist 'cause obviously the French and the English are the only two people groups out there. That's... quite strange.

bjb568

12:10 AM

4 mins ago, by Jon Ericson

@bjb568 Sorta.

@tchrist Jon already said that.

tchrist

@hichris123 Be that as it may, it’s true. I could look it up.

hichris123

@bjb568 Yeah, but it claimed it was a "compromise" -- not really. It's more of a mutual "Let's choose something else".

bjb568

@hichris123 invents new language just to offend others that we have UTC make sense

@hichris123 whatev

tchrist

Suppose you work for a very major U.S. firm that produces all manner of devices horological — clocks and watches and such — and it is moving into new and more spacious digs with nine conference rooms. You decide to name your conference rooms for the nine American timezones. Question: should you shift them for DST? :)

@bjb568 Zulu is more pronouncifical.

bjb568

euatisi

Hm… should i have the shadow vowel in or out there?

tchrist

12:16 AM

Meeting in Hawaii at 3pm Eastern. Meeting at 9am Mountain in Central.

+1 for DST.

@bjb568 Wait, I thought Samoa was UTC-11 not UTC+14.

bjb568

aragh

IDK

tchrist

Dateline.

@bjb568 You’re a programmer: you’re expected to know this shtuff.

bjb568

The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile

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tchrist

Oh wait, there are two Samoas!

bjb568

oh noesa

tchrist

12:21 AM

There’s Samoa Samoa and there’s American Samoa!

How could I have been so silly? Time for some R&R in the V.I. — either of them.

@bjb568 That’s awfully good. I have so been there. Again and again and again. I love how he says he doesn’t do Ozzie accents. :)

We’ll see whether he gets to February 30th in Sweden.

> “It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.” — IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2

Did that happen?

> “It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.” — IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2

I’m getting echoes and echoes.

Looks like now chat is about to die.

bjb568

:o

tchrist

Bad timeouts.

Green forever.

Still green.

Bad timeouts.

I love how there are so many versions of Universal Time to choose from.

bjb568

12:39 AM