Pages Tagged “Time”
Reviews
- The Downloaded
★★★★☆
Robert J. Sawyer
A short, fast tale of frozen people reawakening after the fall of civilization, built around the premise that you need to keep a frozen person’s consciousness active in VR, and there are very different reasons you might put people into cryo storage and a simulation. Not a lot of plot, mainly concepts and character studies. - Flash Forward (TV Pilot) ★★★★★ The first episode of Flash Forward is one of the best-constructed pilot episodes I’ve seen in a long time, especially of an arc-driven series.
- Flashforward (Novel)
A fascinating exploration of time, destiny and free will after everyone on Earth gets a glimpse of the same moment 20 years in the future.
Tech Tips
- Batch Adjust Photos for DST with ExifTool I always forget at least one camera when switching to/from DST, and I always forget the command for exiftool to batch-adjust the image timestamps.
- Clear Date Formatting Don’t use a format like 8/9/10 - depending on where you send it, no one’s sure if you mean August 9, September 8, or what.
- Dates and ColdFusion Query of Queries ColdFusion’s Query of Queries is very particular about the format of dates on both sides of the comparison.
- Get the Date/Time in ISO 8601 Format on the CLI On Linux: Just type ‘date -Is’ in the commandline. On macOS: type ‘date -Iseconds’
- Scheduling for Midnight Plan for 11:59 PM or 12:01 AM, so there’s no confusion about which day it is!
Blog Posts
- More Clocks than Time
Walking around the house last night, setting all the clocks to Daylight Saving Time before bed, I found myself thinking: Why do we have so many clocks, anyway? They used to share one clock for a whole town! OK, that’s not feasible these days, but every time we switch into and out of DST I […]
- Three Kinds of Time
I was thinking about the timeline of DC Comics’ Earth-51 (home to the Great Disaster in Countdown to Final Crisis) and trying to wrap my head around what the past and present might mean for a world that’s been created and destroyed twice in as many years, and realized that some of the time paradoxes […]
- How Long is a Day in Cyberspace?
Everyone knows a day is 24 hours. But how long does a calendar day last worldwide, from the first timezone to reach midnight to the last?
- It’s Comics Time
Time in comics is a strange, fluid thing. When you keep adventure characters in print over the course of decades, you don’t want them to get old. And so characters like Superman, who debuted as twenty- or thirty-somethings 60+ years ago, are roughly the same age today. This is hardly unique to superhero comic books. […]