Falsehoods programmers believe about time

(2012) Submitted so many times over the years

2023 (178 points, 204 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32548085

2016 (183 points, 154 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12675527

2012 linked in article (364 points, 217 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208

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Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones (95 points, 2024, 83 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39360258

Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time (442 points, 2019, 268 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19922062

Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones (128 points, 2016, 80 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515125

… and the follow-up: https://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-pr...