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Clock but we saved DB space by just returning the index of the array of DigitNames (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A strictly logical clock for a 24-hour day would have 0 at the top with 1 on the right and 23 on the left. And it would be only ever set to UTC.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A strictly logical 24 hour clock would just display the digits tbh.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In binary

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure I'd argue binary is more or less "logical". A number is a number.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

UTC has leap seconds. We can do better. PTP/TAI for lyfe.

A perfectly logical clock would use a radio broadcast to count off seconds since a predefined epoch. Put a few of them way up high, so more people can see it, and make them so astonishingly precise that you could tell where you are just by listening.

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