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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).

solenoid

var mongoObjectId = function () {
    var timestamp = (new Date().getTime() / 1000 | 0).toString(16);
    return timestamp + 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(/[x]/g, function() {
        return (Math.random() * 16 | 0).toString(16);
    }).toLowerCase();
};