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astrange on May 16, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time

Seconds do vary because there are no privileged reference frames in the universe. You'll get a different measurement if your cesium measuring experiment is traveling at a different speed than you are.

gervu on May 29, 2019 [–]

That's the direction of your mass-energy vector, not seconds.

A bit like complaining that UTC is wrong because it doesn't match your local Solar time.

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