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[–] realitista@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] cori@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

New years day is always a holiday that doesn't fall on any other day of the calendar. It's just kind of its own thing. No idea how that would actually work irl but that is usually how this proposal is explained.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

As a software engineer, I beg of you

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

We just shut down the servers for one day a year and reboot all of them. How hard can it be?

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Ok, and we just don’t process any of the data from that day, ever?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

what happens on new years stays in new years

[–] golli@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

So we basically make the Purge a reality?

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago

Let's be honest, we all could do with a bit less data processing.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago
[–] KamikazeRusher@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Network switches with over 10 years of uptime chuckle nervously

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

You've been given the zeroth place

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just invent 0. Array starts from 0 so can new year

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago
[–] BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kinda sounds easier to implement tbh, like, right now leap days are in a specific month, but wouldn't it (in addition to a hypothetical new years day) be easier to handle and remember if they are a very explicit part of the calendar system?

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, now there is a day that is not part of a week, or a month. And we have a month and a week that don’t immediately follow after the previous one.

[–] BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

Very reasonable