Falsehoods programmers believe about time
https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca
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@torresjrjr Wait a minute... on number 5: How could a month ever not start and end in the same year?
Week, sure. But months shouldn't overlap years.
@LouisIngenthron
A commenter wrote:
> possibly because before 1752 in England, the year started on the 25th March. As such, 1751 only had 282 days in it.
> https://web.archive.org/web/20070830124531/http://www.norbyhus.dk/calendar.html#England
Though with regards to the standardized ISO 8601 Gregorian calendar, I can't see how that's the case, unless we factor in timezones, in which case maybe it's something to do with the international date line.