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Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list

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).
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Thu Jun 4 00:02:26 2020
@author: shirishgupta
"""
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup