The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile

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• JB

  @jbkjbk1999 · 11 years ago

  This video should be called "Timezones - Tom Scotts descent into madness"

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• EB

  @EbonAvatar · 9 years ago

  &quot;and THEN...you get a call...from the astrophysicist.&quot;<br><br>The arrival of an astrophysicist has never been so sinister.

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• DT

  @dt28469 · 11 years ago

  You know that your date calculator is accurate when it asks you: &quot;start date, end date, location, ethnicity, political spectrum, belief system&quot;

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• DJ

  @djdexcat · 10 years ago

  <i>Then</i> you get a call from a space station in close orbit around a black hole, saying that <i>their</i> seconds are slower than Earth seconds, and ask you to add code to account for <i>that.</i>

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• UN

  @undead890 · 9 years ago (edited)

  And to think, someone just asked Tom what time it was, then started recording.

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• NP

  @npip99 · 12 years ago

  &quot;And you thank them for making it open source&quot; - Best programmer line ever.

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• ME

  @meneldal · 10 years ago

  You forgot when France changed their calendar and tried to introduce decimal time.

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• ME

  @metleon · 6 years ago

  Then you get a call from Arizona saying &quot;Oh we don&apos;t do Daylight Savings Time.&quot;<br>And then you get a call from the Navajo in Arizona saying &quot;Oh we actually DO do Daylight Savings Time.&quot;

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• JE

  @jeffreyblack666 · 10 years ago

  And then you get a call from someone on Mars...

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• DR

  @drplokta · 10 years ago

  You forgot to mention the phone call from a Swedish historian talking about the years from 1700 to 1712, which ended up with February 30 1712 being a real date in Sweden.

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• ST

  @Stijn081 · 11 years ago

  Don&apos;t worry about timezones, worry about why all these people in all those countries know your number :D

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• SP

  @spritz19 · 10 years ago

  And THEN, you get a call from your boss, asking if you can work tomorrow

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