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Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving

Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving

FromOxide and Friends


Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving

FromOxide and Friends

ratings:
Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Mar 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 28th, 2022Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and SavingWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for March 28th, 2022.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on March 28th included Tom Lyon, jasonbking, Matt Campbell, Akshay Kumar, Aaron Goldman and Simeon Miteff. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
[@8:07](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=487) Y2K, leap years 
The Staff of Ra
“at” command



[@15:28](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=928) Matt’s stories elm email

[@23:29](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=1409) Jason: daylight saving time in Indiana “Time in Indiana” wiki


[@26:31](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=1591) Time zone database 
John Bemelmans Marciano (2014) Whatever Happened to the Metric System? How America Kept Its Feet book

Geopolitical aspects of time
Eastman plan calendar



[@32:23](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=1943) Aaron’s stories, setting clocks back, Leap Day
[@35:54](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=2154) Akshay: Ken Thompson’s six day work week?
Leap seconds Time of day hardware bug

[@48:54](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=2934) 2038 - the end of time 
Y2K problems
GPS week number rollover wiki



[@57:58](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=3478) Matt: Cory Doctorow’s “Epoch” short story podcast commissioned by Mark Shuttleworth
[@1:00:28](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=3628) Ultimate, penultimate, antepenultimate
Oxide and Friends podcast!! 
transistor.fm launch point, has links to Spotify, Google, Amazon etc players

Laura Abbott (23 March 2022) Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM write up

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We’d love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
Released:
Mar 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Oxide hosts a weekly Twitter Space where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us Mondays at 5pm PT for an hour or so to catch us live.