assumptions

Falsehoods about time and names

As programmers occasionally we run into things that should be so simple and common that we don’t even think twice about them. Two of the most egregious are time and people names. A matching pair of articles (by different authors) address these with some fairly broad lists. Check out the original posts for full credit, but they are reproduced here for compilation and history’s sake. The fact is names are hard, and time is the most annoying thing since printers.