But does he have the time? can you really have something as unsubstantial and untouchable as time? you think you are in the present but are you? because you shall read this in the future than you are a being of future and am I a being of past? who are we to qualify ourselves based on the timeframe where our thoughts came from? not even the greatest confluence of minds should be able to solve this most effervescent but erudite topic for we are simple beings.. .okay I got bored with this shite.
Tom, Hank/John Green, Michael from Vsauce, etc; I’m just convinced these people are all part of some immortal council from the dawn of time who have guided humanity through dark ages.
Chaos = "Ladder" class Ladder: def user(self): print("Chaos is a Ladder") if Chaos != "Ladder": pass else: Person = input("Whotf is climbing it?:") if Person.lower() != "tom": print(":(") quit() print(f"Chaos is a Ladder and {Person} is climbing it") Item = Ladder() Item.user()
It very probably is a very distressing topic. And that is from a non-programmer, who is just very glad to estimate this stuff and does not deal with it by himself.
"uh, Tom, a bunch of people posted selfies on New Year's Eve and they all got their accounts banned for spamming because the antispam algorithm saw a negative time offset and went nuts"
As a dev who took up the task of maintaining their team's bonkers in-house implementation of date and time, I know that pain. An interface specification for a third-party system once contained, no joke: "Unix timestamp in local time". My colleagues never understood why this got me laughing hysterically like the Joker.
@@otesunki so when the spec authors said "local Unix timestamp", they actually meant "the Unix timestamp that, when *misinterpreted as a local time*, gives you the desired time in the local timezone". It still cracks me up, years after.
OOO MY FUCKING GOD YOU HAVE JUST TOLD EVERYONE THAT THIS DAMN VIDEO IS 1 SECOND SHORTER THAN WHAT IT REALLY IS YOU ABSOLUTE MORON YOU HAVE RUINED TIME ITSELF WITH THIS FOOLISH MISTAKE
That one second would be accumulative. Considering we have nuclear power plants whose internal mechanics are depended on doing stuff at the correct time, getting it wrong could literally mean the destruction of civilization as we know it.
Fun fact : a few terrorists in 1999 died because of timezones in Palestine. Basically the bombs were set with zionic time or something while the time and schedule they were following was something else and therefore the bombs exploded one hour before they were meant to and they all died on the way in the car
I know I'm a year late, but this has some very important implications in computers and finance where exact times are very important. There exists some atomic clocks meant to help keep this accurate, but for most everyone else they shouldn't have to interact with this problem.
he speaks about the people who made the spaghetti code as if they were the heroes of old that defeated a legendary beast seen only once every hundred years.
Once every 100 years is when the leap year is skipped. Except for every 400 years when it happens anyway. And it's still a day off every 5300 or so years.
It is said that a society prospers when old men plant trees they will never sit in the shade of. The modern correlary is people who write insanely complicated technical code and make it open source and those who do things like spend their time maintaining and expanding Wikipedia against the tides of internet entropy. Without the selfless service of these lunatics our modern way of life would not be possible.
I'm so glad Tom Scott doesn't exist in a time where we're moving around at high enough speeds that time dilation starts to have an impact. I'm pretty sure he'd lose his mind. Because these software libraries can't help you then, because you're literally the one who is creating new differences in time.
@@dionyzus2909 Yes your clock in the ship always looks like it's pasisng at the same rate to you, but it doesn't to people on earth or in other places. That's where the issue is. How do you easily calculate times when one person has had a literally different amount of time elapse compare to you? How do you keep track of all of this? Etc. It's the same exact issue Tom Scott is on about in the original video. When you convert between different locations the times are a mess and change all over the place, calculating the time between two different times is a mess, everything is. But at least you can just create a database of rules for time zones. You can't do that when every fast moving ship has its own time elapse differently to you. And similarly to the video, the time since the unix epoch doesn't work properly either with this. Normally at least that mostly agreees across the board, but when you start going really fast compared to other clocks, your clocks can get out of sync. One person can think X seconds has passed since the unix epoch while someone else can think it has been X - 1000 seconds since the epoch. It's going to be a mess. Tom Scott is going to lose his mind if he's still alive.
This is already a consideration for satellites. We DO live in a time where we're moving around at high enough speeds (or rather moving around different things with different proximities to Earth's gravity well) that time dilation starts to have an impact.
@@SnoFitzroy Especially since countries didn't change calender all at once. And often not even the entirety of a country at once. And relativity. Gravity and speed dilate time enough that GPS satellites run 38 microseconds fast. That means positions would drift about 6 km per day and the time signal would be off by a second after about 72 years
@@Omar_Al_Seddik If flat earthers and creationists took their beliefs seriously, they would sound like any sane person. They are trying to remove reality and brute force creationism and the flat earth into it. But what they should be doing is implementing their beliefs into current scientific knowledge. They are just too stupid to figure out how to do something easy like that. it doesn't help than at least 70% of the "flat earthers" are just pretending, in order to wind up people who get mad at others for believing in something unscientific. Always fun to troll people like that. They've not a shred of a sense of humor...
Unix Time: 23:59:59 Universal Co-Ordinated Time : Imma about to end this man whole career (adds leap time) Astronomical Time : Imma stop you right there! (adds random number of seconds/miliseconds according to astronomical alignment)
Becasue it was used in Inception trailer, so for many it's not "Zack Hemsey's song", but simply "Inception trailer music" sometimes even ommiting the "trailer" part and saying it's probably by Hans Zimmer...
As a programmer, I completely understand his frustration with time and timezones. Knowing how we have to handle it makes me want to shoot myself just thinking about it. Hopefully I'll never actually have to write code for it.
Funnily enough a couple of days ago I spent HOURS trying to solve an error where a client wanted a website to show a specific schedule at a specific timezone, since backend is at UTC, a conversion needed to be done from frontend (which showed UTC+2 hours), and it was a NIGHTMARE. So yeah, let's thank all the people that dealt with timezones so we don't have to.
This implies that he wasn’t already “mad” (as you put it) before this video. Cause I’m pretty sure he reached that point before TH-cam, probably around the time the British government got mad at him.
Also: Each second is a span of time. We don't really label the points when the second changes, we label the stretch of time between two of those points. So the :00 second is what's _between_ the start of a minute and the start of the next second in it.
@@monad_tcp Yeah - I have had to stop and think it through when describing unix time stamps. 0 was the second that started at midnight going into 1970, and ended when it ticked over to 00:00:01. What is still mildly confusing to me is what you do when you have different precision. Say you have a timestamp of 1 and another of 2.001 - what duration elapsed between them? The natural approach is to just subtract them and get a 1.001 sec span, but that means you're treating 1 as the point one second after midnight, instead of a numbered block of time that started at that point.
That’s why I love people who entertain with logical facts and things such as how Tom Scott does, eventually they just lose it and start to blow thing up.
Can confirm, had to work with time zones a few times now and it's more than a nightmare. This reaction is appropriate and dare I say on the more calm side
@@monad_tcp Depends on how picky the systems are about time and how physically close they are, I guess? With how Google stretches that one second over days, the offset will be smaller than the network latency to anywhere outside the same city.
I work in software QA and we've had this one app go back and forth about 4 times now because every time I hand it back and the devs fix what I find, a new bug relating to dates and times appears. Currently watching a colleague enter this state of despair - it's just what time does to developers.
and there's a way to manipulate it. It's possible for the human mind to enter an extremely deep state where time slows down and compounds within itself to get you to a point where you'd possibly perceive ~300 000 years of perceived time within a single second. This is believed to be "suspended animation".
didnt even know he ever talked about this, but I went down the exact same wikipedia rabbit hole years ago at 3am. Time, together with networking and analogue audio is one of those things that will ruin you if you look at it for too long
When I started learning about programming I kept hearing "time is a nightmare", and I was like "yeah daylight saving time changes and converting timezones sure is a hassle". What a sweet summer child I was. Long ago.
The Mayans: the world will end in 2012 (World doesn’t end in 2012) Me: what if the Mayans switched up the last 2 digits and the world ends in 2021!!!!!
As a newbie programmer I haven't had need to deal with time all that much, however the first time I did I ran into a bug caused by the fact that my server was not necessarily in the same time zone as the client. (I was dealing with "daily resets")
For a "normal" developers, I'd say this is 90% of the problem you'll have with timezones: weird behaviors because the timezones you're expecting is not the timezones you have (eg. You stored the time in your local timezone in a database that expects the time to be UTC). The other 10% will be features based on time (do x at 2 PM everyday), where you'll have to ask "what about people in different timezones?" to understand the desired behavior. The annoyances Tom is talking about will mainly apply to the (masochistic) people who basically code the libraries you will use to deal with timezones, so you don't have to suffer as much as they did.
I got a job out of high school writing software for tv guide systems. Time zones definitely drove me insane. On top of that I was programming reactive apps with javascript when convenient frameworks like svelte, react and vue weren't a thing...that was also a nightmare. I feel like a dinosaur and I'm only 27.
"I just asked if you had the time, mate. Calm down"
Lol
But does he have the time? can you really have something as unsubstantial and untouchable as time? you think you are in the present but are you? because you shall read this in the future than you are a being of future and am I a being of past? who are we to qualify ourselves based on the timeframe where our thoughts came from? not even the greatest confluence of minds should be able to solve this most effervescent but erudite topic for we are simple beings.. .okay I got bored with this shite.
@@vivithegoblindruid yea
Do you have the time to listen to me whine about nothing and everything all at once?
@@atlasmonkeyleon I am one of those, melodramatic fools, neurotic to the bone no doubt about it
Tom Scott, the man who's been in his late 20's or early 30's for the last 10 years
He was born in his late twenties and is slowly aging to early thirties.
@@Squirrelanditsnutz how is your enamel still there
@@PwnZombie very soft smooth brushes and a loving touch when brushing.
Tom, Hank/John Green, Michael from Vsauce, etc;
I’m just convinced these people are all part of some immortal council from the dawn of time who have guided humanity through dark ages.
@@heck_n_degenerate940 They all have horcruxes somewhere, they'll never die
*"Chaos is a ladder"*
And Tom is climbing
Tom is chaos
Climbing is a ladder
@@Lost_kin435 Chaos ladder tom
Is a is and climbing
Chaos = "Ladder"
class Ladder:
def user(self):
print("Chaos is a Ladder")
if Chaos != "Ladder":
pass
else:
Person = input("Whotf is climbing it?:")
if Person.lower() != "tom":
print(":(")
quit()
print(f"Chaos is a Ladder and {Person} is climbing it")
Item = Ladder()
Item.user()
Ladder climbing tom
Chas is him
He's teleportating up that ladder
That timezone is the reason he looks like he's both 25 years old and 55 at the same time.
You need new glasses. He certainly doesn’t look in his 20’s. He looks like a 40+ year old man
@@xr6lad r/whoosh
@@xr6lad lol he was late 20s when he made this vdeo.
@@blueazula911 r/ihavereddit
He's 25 and 13 months
he looks so distressed
This was a first hand experience at some point
As a programmer I can only say it's entirely justified.
It very probably is a very distressing topic.
And that is from a non-programmer, who is just very glad to estimate this stuff and does not deal with it by himself.
especially at 1:03
Tom Scott has seen something so horrible he dares not describe it.
Tom calm down, someone just set the clock wrong.
"uh, Tom, a bunch of people posted selfies on New Year's Eve and they all got their accounts banned for spamming because the antispam algorithm saw a negative time offset and went nuts"
Lmfao
No. It's either you set the clock right or you *die*
A wrong clock on a system might cause big troubles
@@reihanboo can’t help but notice that we have the same pfp...
"Universal Coordinated Time"
**music swells**
"ASTRONOMICAL Time"
**music goes fucking apeshit**
whats the background music?
*Oh god astronomical time, were all fucked and we let it happen!*
@@csanadhorvath Zack Hemsey - Mind Heist
@@MF_JACK this sonehow is very fitting.
@@Huyrrou It really is.
*This is what happened to VSauce...*
Oh my...you don't see...Vsauce is an interdimensional time traveler. You must see. Tom...IS...Vsauce...
DA DA DA DA - DA DA DA DA - DMMMMMMMMMMMMM
UNDERRATED COMMENT
@@nickmonks9563 Or is he?
*Vsuace Intensifies*
I had no idea that lootcrate guy had a youtube channel, neat
As a programmer that has had to work with timezones in the past; this is a perfectly reasonable reaction. It really is a nightmare.
As a dev who took up the task of maintaining their team's bonkers in-house implementation of date and time, I know that pain. An interface specification for a third-party system once contained, no joke: "Unix timestamp in local time". My colleagues never understood why this got me laughing hysterically like the Joker.
Thats a thing another crazy person would say...
@@Yootzkore "universal unix timestamp but not universal"
whyyyYyYy
@@otesunki the number of seconds elapsed since midnight UTC on January 1st, 1970 famously depends on the timezone, right? Right?
@@otesunki so when the spec authors said "local Unix timestamp", they actually meant "the Unix timestamp that, when *misinterpreted as a local time*, gives you the desired time in the local timezone". It still cracks me up, years after.
Sir, this is a Wendy's drive through
can i get number 1 please
when we lose our principles, we invite chaos
@@giaem4108 I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6, with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, 1 with cheese, and a large soda
@@giaem4108 Was that a normal 1 or a leap 1?
@@johncitizen5130 normal one please
This man just went through the 5 stages of grief in 2 minutes and 6 seconds
OOO MY FUCKING GOD YOU HAVE JUST TOLD EVERYONE THAT THIS DAMN VIDEO IS 1 SECOND SHORTER THAN WHAT IT REALLY IS YOU ABSOLUTE MORON YOU HAVE RUINED TIME ITSELF WITH THIS FOOLISH MISTAKE
@@AK-vz3zo "sir, this is Wendy's"
@@AK-vz3zo nahh, see the video forgot to count the second at 1:60.
@@AK-vz3zo The metairony begins
@@user-vv9jg8fo7e sir, you are unfunny
Vsauce touching his head: wanna know how I got these scars?
Tom: I'm figuring it out
Oh no
@@lemonstarofficial i disagree
I don't get it
Vsauce and Tom would be a duo that could rule the world.
Or are you?
the "Clock is off by one second we're all gonna die" energy here is off the charts.
That one second would be accumulative. Considering we have nuclear power plants whose internal mechanics are depended on doing stuff at the correct time, getting it wrong could literally mean the destruction of civilization as we know it.
@@druncle1977 Wow that's so comforting!
Fun fact : a few terrorists in 1999 died because of timezones in Palestine. Basically the bombs were set with zionic time or something while the time and schedule they were following was something else and therefore the bombs exploded one hour before they were meant to and they all died on the way in the car
@@vedaryan334 wow
I know I'm a year late, but this has some very important implications in computers and finance where exact times are very important. There exists some atomic clocks meant to help keep this accurate, but for most everyone else they shouldn't have to interact with this problem.
I can confirm, handling dates/time with code is EXTREMELY PAINFUL
You're a big guy.
@@blastanoizz2 truuuu
@@blastanoizz2 for you!
@@blastanoizz2 for you
What happens if I take that mask off? @Redbeard @Terrabade
I love how you didn't even have to edit him
Literally just added some music 😂.
But it works.
pure organic meme
Pure madness
I was expecting your classic Out of Context compilations, showing him doing/talking things without any explications. But this is great.
weirdo
That explains how he became eternally youthful, He Hacked Time itself. He lives in his own Timezone.
Roundel. I think you need new glasses. He looks 40+ to me.
@@xr6lad You seem to be in the minority here. Maybe get new glasses?
He lives in the leap second.
@@shirosaki97 His 30th birthday's first second keeps repeating.
I assumed, somewhere under the ashes of Pompeii is a mosaic that ages instead of him.
he speaks about the people who made the spaghetti code as if they were the heroes of old that defeated a legendary beast seen only once every hundred years.
Is he wrong tho
That's a very appropriate description of them, couldn't have worded it better myself.
That's what exactly they are except maybe seventy eighty years
Once every 100 years is when the leap year is skipped.
Except for every 400 years when it happens anyway.
And it's still a day off every 5300 or so years.
It is said that a society prospers when old men plant trees they will never sit in the shade of.
The modern correlary is people who write insanely complicated technical code and make it open source and those who do things like spend their time maintaining and expanding Wikipedia against the tides of internet entropy.
Without the selfless service of these lunatics our modern way of life would not be possible.
I'm so glad Tom Scott doesn't exist in a time where we're moving around at high enough speeds that time dilation starts to have an impact. I'm pretty sure he'd lose his mind. Because these software libraries can't help you then, because you're literally the one who is creating new differences in time.
But we may be there soon.....rockets.....many many rockets. Just wait for solar standard time.
@@dionyzus2909 Yes your clock in the ship always looks like it's pasisng at the same rate to you, but it doesn't to people on earth or in other places. That's where the issue is. How do you easily calculate times when one person has had a literally different amount of time elapse compare to you? How do you keep track of all of this? Etc.
It's the same exact issue Tom Scott is on about in the original video. When you convert between different locations the times are a mess and change all over the place, calculating the time between two different times is a mess, everything is. But at least you can just create a database of rules for time zones. You can't do that when every fast moving ship has its own time elapse differently to you.
And similarly to the video, the time since the unix epoch doesn't work properly either with this. Normally at least that mostly agreees across the board, but when you start going really fast compared to other clocks, your clocks can get out of sync. One person can think X seconds has passed since the unix epoch while someone else can think it has been X - 1000 seconds since the epoch.
It's going to be a mess. Tom Scott is going to lose his mind if he's still alive.
this is already a thing that must be accounted for in satellites
This is already a consideration for satellites. We DO live in a time where we're moving around at high enough speeds (or rather moving around different things with different proximities to Earth's gravity well) that time dilation starts to have an impact.
....or do we?
And _then,_
you get the call
from the astrophysicist
@@despacitosalad_144 Im more afraid of the Historian's shifting calendars
@@despacitosalad_144 lol
@@SnoFitzroy Especially since countries didn't change calender all at once. And often not even the entirety of a country at once.
And relativity. Gravity and speed dilate time enough that GPS satellites run 38 microseconds fast. That means positions would drift about 6 km per day and the time signal would be off by a second after about 72 years
honestly love this dude, his passion into knowledge in general just makes anything he's on an absolute gem
What about people who delve past the official truth? He´s not on that level you know?
@@teppo9585 I haven't slept enough lately, so my brain can't comprehend this sentence. What in gods name are you talking about?
@@TinyMeatPete He's probably a flat earther creationist. Just ignore him lol.
@@TinyMeatPete His tin foil hat is a bit tight.
@@Omar_Al_Seddik If flat earthers and creationists took their beliefs seriously, they would sound like any sane person. They are trying to remove reality and brute force creationism and the flat earth into it. But what they should be doing is implementing their beliefs into current scientific knowledge. They are just too stupid to figure out how to do something easy like that.
it doesn't help than at least 70% of the "flat earthers" are just pretending, in order to wind up people who get mad at others for believing in something unscientific. Always fun to troll people like that. They've not a shred of a sense of humor...
Its scary seeing the calmest man on TH-cam going insane
"do you have the right time tom"
*Dramatic piano music playing*
"no."
*I understood that reference*
@@notcharlie6685 woooooo!!! Finally!!!
Someone speak my language
Unix Time: 23:59:59
Universal Co-Ordinated Time : Imma about to end this man whole career (adds leap time)
Astronomical Time : Imma stop you right there! (adds random number of seconds/miliseconds according to astronomical alignment)
Yamamoto Universal Time: Trust me, I’m better.
*ADDS LEAP MINUTE*
I'm about*
Astronomical time is the only system that makes sense. The solar system IS the clock, we're just resetting ours to match it.
@@JorgetePanete *imma 'bout
23:59:60 just wondering if it makes a time stamp
Seriously though, thank god for open source codes and standard libraries. Programming in time can be absolute madness.
For anyone wanting the song, it's Zack Hemsey's Mind Heist.
I hear it everywhere but never credited lmao.
Becasue it was used in Inception trailer, so for many it's not "Zack Hemsey's song", but simply "Inception trailer music" sometimes even ommiting the "trailer" part and saying it's probably by Hans Zimmer...
@@cola98765 ngl I didn't even realize that music wasn't in the actual movie until you pointed this out.
thank god, i've been searching for it
We need more people like you
My message for all people to people like you : 1:45
Waiting for the police call box to suddenly appear behind him.
The tardis?
I believe he lives in TARDIS already, along with Vsauce
Tom Scott should play The Doctor. so fitting.
@@larsswig912 I'd go crazy if tom plays the 14th doctor
If he gets even more insane, he will meet a different doctor.
Bgm makes all the difference
the music is Zack Hemsey - "Mind Heist" if you were wondering
As a programmer, I completely understand his frustration with time and timezones. Knowing how we have to handle it makes me want to shoot myself just thinking about it. Hopefully I'll never actually have to write code for it.
Glad to be a programmer at a time when date libraries come standard.
haha `import datetime` go brr
"Why is Tom Scott in the asylum?"
*His clock thinks a minute has 61 seconds*
Funnily enough a couple of days ago I spent HOURS trying to solve an error where a client wanted a website to show a specific schedule at a specific timezone, since backend is at UTC, a conversion needed to be done from frontend (which showed UTC+2 hours), and it was a NIGHTMARE. So yeah, let's thank all the people that dealt with timezones so we don't have to.
This implies that he wasn’t already “mad” (as you put it) before this video. Cause I’m pretty sure he reached that point before TH-cam, probably around the time the British government got mad at him.
That sounds like an interesting story!
How exactly did he manage that one
please elaborate
If my memory didn't fail me, Tom makes a fake prank site that mimicks a gov site. It got popular, and the gov is mad.
He was mad wayyy before TH-cam. See "The Ballad of Mad Cap'n Tom"
this is me when I'm stoned and realize there's 60 seconds in a minute even tho the seconds end at 59 and goes back to zero
Also: Each second is a span of time. We don't really label the points when the second changes, we label the stretch of time between two of those points. So the :00 second is what's _between_ the start of a minute and the start of the next second in it.
that's basically how computers count, from 0.
ME
But sometimes, _just sometimes_, its 61 seconds.
@@monad_tcp Yeah - I have had to stop and think it through when describing unix time stamps. 0 was the second that started at midnight going into 1970, and ended when it ticked over to 00:00:01.
What is still mildly confusing to me is what you do when you have different precision. Say you have a timestamp of 1 and another of 2.001 - what duration elapsed between them? The natural approach is to just subtract them and get a 1.001 sec span, but that means you're treating 1 as the point one second after midnight, instead of a numbered block of time that started at that point.
Every Tom scott Video needs to have this music.
He's really just rambling, huh? The music makes this 👌 *chefs kiss*
When Tom Scott found out the Y2K bug is also a virus affecting him
"I am falling into a crevasse of insanity"
*crevice
@@SnoFitzroy A crevasse is colder
That’s why I love people who entertain with logical facts and things such as how Tom Scott does, eventually they just lose it and start to blow thing up.
Obsessed with how the music fits Tom's emotional process
If you ever programm something like a timing/date library you know what true insanity feels like.
Can confirm, had to work with time zones a few times now and it's more than a nightmare. This reaction is appropriate and dare I say on the more calm side
This is me trying to explain that one awesome turn I had in a collectable card game.
I prefer the term "Tom Scott's descent into Sparta".
THIS
OMG
You just made me travel back in time.
Beautiful.
@@multimapping8303
*IS*
@@declantecho1717 *SPARTA!!!*
@@PapaNierForReplicant Proceeds to kick the persian Scout into hell
you ever watch a batman villain be formed in real time?
Of course google had to go fuck it up and be like "oh instead of leap seconds we're just making seconds slightly longer now"
The one thing I can say for that is that it means you can *mostly* get away with completely ignoring it.
@@dnebdal no you can't, as soon as that system interacts with another that doesn't do it, hell ensues
@@monad_tcp Depends on how picky the systems are about time and how physically close they are, I guess? With how Google stretches that one second over days, the offset will be smaller than the network latency to anywhere outside the same city.
Leap S M E A R
Tom Scott in 5 years: "I am here in the backrooms level 187"
"Hey Tom, could you tell me what time is it?"
Tom 48 minutes later:
is it weird that I love Tom Scott even more now as he is finally a complete maniac?
That video is still giving me nightmares and has made me perpetually afraid of having to programming with timezones
True
The clock of madness, a H.P. Lovecraft story
People don't realise it yet, but Tom Scott is a Doctor Who villain.
And he _looks_ like one of the Doctors
If life is a game then Tom is one of the code miners and has slowly been finding all the secrets, one way or another.
This man is the eternal university student.
I work in software QA and we've had this one app go back and forth about 4 times now because every time I hand it back and the devs fix what I find, a new bug relating to dates and times appears. Currently watching a colleague enter this state of despair - it's just what time does to developers.
He has seen what no man should ever have to gaze upon. The revelation has driven him to the edge of insanity.
Time is just nature's way to stop everything happening at once
Woah
and there's a way to manipulate it. It's possible for the human mind to enter an extremely deep state where time slows down and compounds within itself to get you to a point where you'd possibly perceive ~300 000 years of perceived time within a single second. This is believed to be "suspended animation".
This is his villain origin story
didnt even know he ever talked about this, but I went down the exact same wikipedia rabbit hole years ago at 3am. Time, together with networking and analogue audio is one of those things that will ruin you if you look at it for too long
I will allways remember this Tomscott video as one of his most intense and frustrated explanations. it's epic.
When I started learning about programming I kept hearing "time is a nightmare", and I was like "yeah daylight saving time changes and converting timezones sure is a hassle". What a sweet summer child I was. Long ago.
Perfectly reasonable reaction when dealing with computers and time. Time calculation is an awfully difficult thing to solve in programming.
And this is why I'm always thankful to open-source programmers!
Absolutely phenomenal soundwork!
As a programmer, I swear to god it’s not just Tom who is driven beyond insanity by date data structures.
The bgm is from inside Tom’s brain. There’s an orchestra happening inside there.
When I drink too much coffee and stay up all night watching Conspiracy theory vids:
The music lining up so so well really sells this 😂👏
The background music made me think I was watching a movie with the greatest plot ever
It all started with xnopyt 😔
aaaaaagggghhhhh
I love how the music just happens to line up
Thank you for making this
The time the doctor possessed Tom Scott for a video.
This reminds me of trying to explain the concept of Garry's Mod to my parents
The fact you only had to add the music to make tom sound like a madman makes it perfect.
Steven, THANK YOU for this
"Tom, I just asked what's the time."
Yes, but he is saying is that a computer could never ever get time ABSOLUTELY EXACT
Why is this the fourth result when I'm looking up Baka Mitai? It should be the first!
*"The human brain is the most complex structure in the whole universe"*
-Human brain
i dont know why but i love this video so much
the inception soundtrack in the background just adds to the confusion and rampant anxiety
Cthulhu ain’t got shit on leap seconds when it comes to driving people mad
"Second. And if you do, the clocks go 23:59:58"
The sound effects is pretty spot on.
The music is an actual perfect addition
the iception trailer music works so well here
Zack Hemsey’s “Mind Heist” gets ripped off all over the place, but yes, you are correct, it was used in Inception.
@@jpe1 respect for knowing the name and who it's by I put inception trailer music so people understand
I don't feel comfortable anymore.
You shouldn't be
No, really you shouldn't
When Tom Scott looked into the abyss, the abyss blinked.
The music makes this 100% more dramatic and I love it.
as a senior in college who is majoring in computer science, i feel like this descent into madness sums up the major (probably the field too) very well
When you have last 3 brain cells left but you are an 170 iq guy
That’s the only time I’ve ever heard the boom sound effect used effectively in a dramatic way.
I like that the different between normal and madness is the music
He's describing how 2021 is just 2020 part 2
The Mayans: the world will end in 2012
(World doesn’t end in 2012)
Me: what if the Mayans switched up the last 2 digits and the world ends in 2021!!!!!
As a newbie programmer I haven't had need to deal with time all that much, however the first time I did I ran into a bug caused by the fact that my server was not necessarily in the same time zone as the client. (I was dealing with "daily resets")
For a "normal" developers, I'd say this is 90% of the problem you'll have with timezones: weird behaviors because the timezones you're expecting is not the timezones you have (eg. You stored the time in your local timezone in a database that expects the time to be UTC). The other 10% will be features based on time (do x at 2 PM everyday), where you'll have to ask "what about people in different timezones?" to understand the desired behavior.
The annoyances Tom is talking about will mainly apply to the (masochistic) people who basically code the libraries you will use to deal with timezones, so you don't have to suffer as much as they did.
The music absolutely makes this.
I'm here in an asylum.
Now, i don't want to be here, but i'm here none the less.
I got a job out of high school writing software for tv guide systems. Time zones definitely drove me insane. On top of that I was programming reactive apps with javascript when convenient frameworks like svelte, react and vue weren't a thing...that was also a nightmare. I feel like a dinosaur and I'm only 27.
You are so good at your job. I am just a noob in hk who just finished high school and is going to study computer science in the uk.
nice post, steven!
nice post, steven!
nice post, steven!
nice post, steven!
@@user-rm6wv7uz2e nice post, steven!
nice post, steven!
Let us take a moment to appreciate how well the music was incorporated into this
0:49 “...back and back, there’s no stopping it”