Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Is time an illusion? Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:33:42 +0200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net FXKCFfCEfxwf8DYE/Lggtg/wrRsZgec2GBhLpVNNmpe08Bh4o= Cancel-Lock: sha1:soEkAeWXf6mE5s0cLM6uGZMiBxY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:37509 On 28.09.2017 19:49, lewbloch@gmail.com wrote: > When you think about it, it's obvious that synchronization is all but impossible. But the Precision Time Protocol has ways to deal with that. That reminds me of the infinite improbability drive... ;-) > It's a deep topic, like date/time issues in software generally. It's not for the faint of heart, nor the lazy. Some topics (e.g. dealing with time zones) are not really that difficult yet surprisingly often done wrong. ("Ha, let's store localtime in the database table and save some bytes by excluding time zone offset.") Well, I guess that is then category "lazy". > And yes, time is an illusion. > > 'Time,' he said, 'is what keeps everything from happening at once.' - Ray Cummings :-) I always appreciate your excursions in philosophical territories. Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end