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Your Calendrical Fallacy Is

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Time is a complex thing which lends itself to multiple fallacy’s (more like falsehoods). Some fallacies include:

  • a day has exactly 86,000 seconds (Daylight savings and leap seconds exist),
  • calendrical isn’t a word (it is),
  • work weeks are contiguous (it isn’t in Brunei),
  • months have at least 28 days (if you ignore other calender systems),
  • and many others.

There’s an interesting video by Tom Scott on The Problem with Time & Timezones [10:12] which also covers this. Thank god I don’t have to program dates and time.