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gib444yesterday at 6:21 AM3 repliesview on HN

OP should be glad a new time unit wasn't invented


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friendzisyesterday at 7:31 AM

Workdays! Think about it, if you set the delay in regular days/seconds the updated dependency can get pulled in on a weekend with only someone maybe on-call.

(Hope your timezones and tzdata correctly identifies Easter bank holiday as non-workdays)

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ghurtadoyesterday at 8:10 AM

If we're taking suggestions, I'd like to propose "parsec" (not to be confused with the unit of distance of the same name)

That way Han Solo can make sense in the infamous quote.

EDIT: even Gemini gets this wrong:

> In Star Wars, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time, representing approximately 3.26 light-years

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cyrusmgyesterday at 7:09 AM

N multiplications of dozen-second