Quick—What Time Is It?!
A presentation at DevOpsDays Zürich in in Zürich, Switzerland by Daniel "phrawzty" Maher
Quick—What Time Is It!?
Time
It’s complicated
Chronos & Kairos
Distension
Maths
Noumena & Phenomena
Space & Time?
Space-Time
🤯
Forget definitions
Let’s try abstractions!
Clocks
Calendars
Time zones
Datetime libraries
Do not write your own datetime library
"I wonder if this is by design or by accident."
— R. David Murray
Do not assume that the network is reliable
Electricity: Like the Internet but worse
Distortions? In my spacetime field?
It’s more common than you think.
Time
It’s complicated
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