Interesting Links for 28-03-2019

[andrewducker]

Storing time data as UTC is not a silver bullet (wish I'd read this last time I'd written something with dates in it)

(tags:date calendars software data )

The British government's view is that in the event of No Deal there both will and won't be a border in Ireland

(tags:ireland NorthernIreland europe uk OhForFucksSake )

The obscene moral spectacle of Theresa May's resignation

(tags:conservatives politics EpicStupidity UK europe )

Facebook to ban white nationalist content

(tags:facebook racism )

Brexit: Arlene Foster says DUP will not support withdrawal agreement in crushing blow for Theresa May

(tags:UK NorthernIreland europe hope DUP )

How Inuit Parents Raise Kids Without Yelling ??? And Teach Them To Control Anger

(tags:psychology children parenting Inuit emotion anger )

Indicative votes: A People's Vote just became much more likely

(tags:UK europe politics hope )

How the UK lost Brexit battle (decisions made two years ago led us inexorably to this point)

(tags:UK europe politics )

The number of new coal plants being built has collapsed by 84% in 3 years

(tags:coal electricity globalwarming GoodNews )

Mercury is the closest planet to all seven other planets (video)

(tags:physics space video viaSwampers )

The Library of Rare Colours (video)

(tags:video colour art history )

Edinburgh sees 80% surge in job adverts

(tags:jobs edinburgh )

How Do Blind People Who've Never Seen Colour Think About Colour?

(tags:blindness colour psychology )

Comments

Re: Dates

[andrewducker]

Time zones change all the time. I'd expect that dealing with updates to the time zones would be standard.

Re: Dates

[calimac]

The catch in the example given in the article is that, if you say "the conference will start at 9 AM on [future date N]," you don't know know what time, in UTC terms, 9 AM will be on that date, so there's nothing to tag it to. Handling current updates is relatively easy, assuming you've been informed of them. (I've found plenty of websites giving detailed information on the world's time zones, but none with authoritative info on who has DST and when it applies.) But predicting what wayward governments will do about time policy ... that's hard.