The state of time in Rust: leaps and bounds
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In this topic, I will try to review the current landscape of Rust libraries for accounting dates and times. In particular, I will touch on the thorny issues concerning support for time standards and UTC leap seconds. The problem space There are several different quantities used by software to represent dates and times, each with their own properties and complexities. A timestamp measures the linear count of seconds since an agreed-upon moment, usually the Unix epoch (1970-01-01T00:00:00Z). For...

I found this review very interesting. It goes quite deep into the different problems. The author have done the research and does s good job of presenting it in a clear and understandable way.

  • PatatasDelPapa@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    I don’t have much to add so here’s a quote from the forums that made me chuckle

    So hypothetically programmers in 2135 or later may have to deal with a leap minute (assuming the Earth rotation will not slow dramatically before that).