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DateTime (xkcd.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, as long you only need the delta in milliseconds it's easy. Just count the milliseconds from 1970 to the event. The problem starts when you want to have a human readable representation.

It's calenders they suck, not time.

[–] mormegil 6 points 11 months ago

Well... unless you measure the number of [milli]seconds using something like time_t, which lies because of leap seconds. I.e. even such a seemingly simple interface, in fact, includes a calendar.