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kccqzy • today at 3:01 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Tell Congress to change the rules again soon, lest a new generation of programmers become complacent and hardcode transitions again. Many current junior programmers don’t remember the 2000s rule change.

I can even hear this conversation happening: what? I need to open this America/Los_Angeles file just to convert a timestamp? What pretentious overengineering! I want a single-file executable with zero dependencies. Let me hard code the rules.


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mook • today at 3:54 PM

There's a bunch of changes recently / coming up in Canada, so that might be good enough. I've started occasionally reading the tzdb mailing list archives for fun because of that.

throw0101c • today at 3:28 PM

> I want a single-file executable with zero dependencies.

Isn't this what Go programs are to a certain extent?

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