Quick—What Time Is It?!

A presentation at DevOpsDays Zürich in May 2019 in Zürich, Switzerland by Daniel "phrawzty" Maher

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Quick—What Time Is It!?

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Time

It’s complicated

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Chronos & Kairos

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Distension

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Maths

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Noumena & Phenomena

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Space & Time?

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Space-Time

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🤯

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Forget definitions

Let’s try abstractions!

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Clocks

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Calendars

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Time zones

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Datetime libraries

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Do not write your own datetime library

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"I wonder if this is by design or by accident."

— R. David Murray

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Do not assume that the network is reliable

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Electricity: Like the Internet but worse

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Distortions? In my spacetime field?

It’s more common than you think.

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Time

It’s complicated