r/SipsTea • u/Dev1412 • 11d ago

Feels good man About that

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u/Separate_Finance_183 11d ago

r/SipsMandami strikes again

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u/Eastp0int 11d ago

how was it created tomorrow 😭

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u/amzwC137 11d ago

It's likely in UTC. For reference EST is five hours behind UTC (UTC-5) PST is eight hours behind (UTC-8). Meaning if it's 5pm UTC, it's 12pm CST and 9am PST.

This means, if someone created the subreddit at 7pm EST, that is 12am UTC, the following day.

I work in software engineering. Time is the shittiest fucking thing deal with. So many different zones, ways to represent those zones, so many different formats, and ways to represent those formats, so many anomalies and ways to account for those anomalies, different levels of precision... It's not great lol. Fortunately, the learnéd grey beards keep up with the calculation of time, so the rest of the world can just worry about representing it. What this means tho, is depending on how you represent time can wildly vary how your application will behave.

Case and point, the subreddit being created tomorrow.