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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.