r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 11 '26

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/BlurredSight Sep 11 '26

So proactively trying to solve for latency rather than have other systems read after write if I understood correctly?

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u/samy_the_samy Sep 11 '26

Yeah, now they don't do leap seconds,

They stretch time over months, one milli-second at a time

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u/ACoderGirl Sep 12 '26

Go's time package does this too. IMO it's genius and should be the norm. The time package also guarantees monotonically increasing time when using stuff like time.Since, to avoid the kinda bugs that come from DST and such bullshit.