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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] ElderWendigo 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They store the number of seconds since the epoch of 1970, but you're always going to have leap days and even leap seconds. Even if you changed the definition of a second to match the current length of a year, it would be off again relatively soon and you'd need leap seconds again. It's NEVER going to be as simple as you seem to think it should be. Chaos and complexity is inherent in the whole system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I never said it was simple. The comment above me was "oh, this makes it much easier" and I was like "it's not really getting easier". That's all I said.

[–] ElderWendigo 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I understood. I still disagree for the reasons in all of my previous comments.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Let's agree to disagree