| 25 Oct 2024 |
emily | or, no | 23:14:24 |
emily | gah, timezone arithmetic is such a pain :) | 23:14:29 |
emily | rather, it means it's really early for people in negative UTC offsets | 23:14:37 |
Tristan Ross | I think either way, we'd run into problems | 23:14:40 |
emily | well, "freeze is when it's no longer the 24th AoE" means that as long as your clock says the 24th it's okay to do a breaking change – whereas "freeze is when it's the 25th anywhere" means that for many people the deadline will be quite early on the 24th | 23:15:51 |
emily | I think "you have to do timezone arithmetic to check only if the clock says the cutoff date" is more international-friendly | 23:16:15 |
emily | though it's mostly just the same thing but offset by one day ultimately | 23:16:28 |
| 26 Oct 2024 |
hexa | I always thought of times as in UTC | 02:22:31 |
hexa | * I always thought of times in UTC | 02:22:35 |
hexa | AoE is something that came up with the SC election, and I find it much less intuitive | 02:22:55 |
hexa | Timezones are quite literally UTC offsets, which gives the math operation away 😄 | 02:23:23 |
hexa | Whereas I have no clue where the latest timezone on earth is 🤷 | 02:23:48 |
emily | I like AoE in theory except for the fact that "start of Monday AoE" and "end of Sunday AoE" are very different times :/ | 02:24:01 |
hexa | is AoE essentially UTC+14? | 02:24:30 |