Sorry, why would you be “boned” if you have UTC time? Are you thinking of the case where the desired behavior is to preserve the local time, rather than the absolute time?
I think the comment is specifically talking about storing future times, and contemplating future changes to the local time zone offsets.
If I say that something is going to happen at noon local time on July 1, 2030 in New York, we know that is, under current rules, going to happen at 16:00 UTC. But what if the US changes its daylight savings rules between now and 2030? The canonical time for that event is noon local time, and the offset between local time and UTC can only certainly be determined with past events, so future events defined by local will necessarily have some uncertainty when it comes to UTC.
So many things would be fucked by a TZ change that it very rarely makes sense to consider it.
You’re making a calendar app? Fuck it…some folks are gonna get confused…solved by simply emailing your users and telling them to reschedule shit because there’s kind of a big event going on that everyone knows about and has been planning for for years. Hell in all liklihood this is probably easily solved by simply doing a mass migration of events scheduled before the TZ change.
You’re coding for nuclear weapons? Maybe consider it. But probably not.
That is to say: there are ways to solve problems without resorting to writing the most complicated bullshit code ever seen. Unless of course you work on my team - in which case you’d be right at home.
I've been going down a rabbit hole trying to get to the source of the Japanese one. It's a marker at a shrine with the old name of the shrine, apparently, and no longer has the hexagram. That's all the further I could get before work, but it shows up in weird conspiracy-like blogs with arbitrarily-drawn hexagrams on maps (using the location of things today despite, y'know, the shrine variously having been purported to move, and some saying the thing was sealed away for over 2000 years which has a whole host of other issues). I'll report back if I get sufficiently bored. I have a feeling that, short of contacting the actual shrine, I'm not going to get very far. Even the various shrine and tourism websites are mostly dead links that I have to find by searching again on the base tourism site.
edit: This seems like a more sensible site explaining what a hexagram meant previously in Japan (basket weave pattern) https://cultural-experience.blogspot.com/2015/01/blog-post_8.html and addresses the "Japanese people came from the lost tribes" myth that was apparently dreamed up by a Scottsman in the past.
It’s not like these societies were completely disconnected from each other (except Japan). Remember even people in the past borrowed things from their history for their beliefs. The entirety of Hermeticism is the fusion of Greek and Egyptian beliefs for example (Hermes and Thoth specifically).
Japan wasn't even disconnected. They traded with China, sent missions there, etc.
They were more disconnected during the sakoku policy, but they still had traders coming in (Chinese, Korean, and I think Dutch) even if they all had to trade from Dejima. Rangaku (the Ran here coming from hoRANda (holland) and gaku (study)) was quite popular even during this time and before the opening leading up to the Meji era.
Traded heavily with China for obvious reasons. And the Silk Road began in China and ended on the Eastern Mediterranean coast. Every single one of these areas was directly connected by the most famous trade route in history.
Ok, I make a lot of jokes in this community. I make a lot of jokes on the internet in general because I’m just a drunk looking to have a good time.
However, I really think I know this guy. Well, kind of. If it’s who I’m thinking of his girlfriend used to be part of my friend group. She’s pregnant and ready to pop. If it’s who I’m thinking of it’s her 7th or 8th kid. After the first few she got into the antivax stuff pretty heavily, then went completely off the deep end with conspiracies and SovCit stuff because her boyfriend at the time was into it and, unbeknownst to everyone around at the time, it seemed to work for him because his very rich parents funded all his shit and paid all his debts.
If this isn’t who I’m thinking of it still hits really close to home.
The number 6 is quite nice. It has a lot of factors and is also the smallest perfect number. Unsurprisingly, it shows up everywhere in a number of religions. People might easily have started with the number 6 and designed the star to go along with it. While it was harder to travel thousands of years ago, people did and it only takes one to bring back a design like this.
We can trace every script in Europe, Africa and Asia back to just three, one from Mesopotamia (3400 BC), another from Egypt (3250 BC) and the third from China (1200 BC). If writing was able to make it’s way to almost every single culture on three continents, a 6 pointed star certainly can.
When I was learning to drive at the age of 30, the first time I went on the highway, my friend teaching me flipped the rear view mirror up and sternly declared, "Never look back."
Yep, for sure. She was making a very specific point at the time, about not letting cars behind you pressure you into going faster than you feel comfortable.
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