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The difference between programmers and testers (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Do timezones have anything to do with the problem at hand? They're a shift of the clock to sync the clock with the Sun visually rolling across the sky. The inherent time is the same on the entire planet. Since it doesn't really make sense to track the Sun's relative position in the sky far enough away from it, they'd either default to UTC or the time on Earth of wherever in the US the death took place.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

For timekeeping, you're correct that timezones shouldn't affect anything. But in some parts of law, the local time of a particular place (eg state capital, naval observatory, etc...) is what might control when a deadline has passed or not.

If we then have to reconcile that with high speed space travel, then there's a possibility of ending up in a legal pickle even when the timekeeping aspect might be simple. But now we're well into legal fanfiction, which is my favorite sort but we don't have any ~~guardrails~~ ground rules to follow.