timvisee

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

• There are always 24 hours in a day.
• February is always 28 days long.
• Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

barneygale

import socket
import struct
import json

def unpack_varint(s):
    d = 0
    for i in range(5):
        b = ord(s.recv(1))
        d |= (b & 0x7F) << 7*i
        if not b & 0x80: