I'm old enough to remember computers being pitched as devices that can do tedious math for us. Now we have to do tedious math for them apparently.
replyHence the way I would do it (and have for other purposes), as stated in my final sentence. Have the human state the intent and convert to your own internally preferred units as needed.
replyI'm sure you would like to memorize all kinds of API instead of having something idiot proof and straightforward
replyAs if `minimumReleaseAge` in `[install]` section of `.bunfig.toml` doesn't require the same kind of memorization.
replyNo no no, see now we just say "computer! do tedious math!", and it will do some slightly different math for us and compliment us on having asked it to do so.
replyHey that's a great joke, you made me spill my morning home-brewed kombucha.
replyI'm going to steal that one for my JavaScript monthly developers meetup.
Is it ok if I attribute it to "Xirdus on Hacker News"?
Lol sure.
replyThe one true unit of time is hexadecimal encoded nanoseconds since the unix epoch. (I'm only half joking because I actually have authored code that used that before.)
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