Awesome thoughts on how programmers should think about TIME

I saw this article on Hacker News today. It's very similar to a blog post I was planning to write, but never did.

Now I don't have to:

When measuring time, measure Unix time. Its UTC. Its easy to obtain. It doesnt have timezone offsets or daylight saving or leap seconds.

When storing time, store Unix time. Its a single number.If you want to store a humanly-readable time e.g. logs, consider storing it along with Unix time, not instead of Unix time.

When displaying time, always include the timezone offset. A time format without an offset is useless.

The system clock is inaccurate.

This and more points like this in this article by Emil Mikulic:

via Time.