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Special 10th anniversary edition of WHAT IF?—revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to important questions you never thought to ask—coming from November 2024. Preorder here!
[[Two figures converse]]
First: What day is it?
Second: Sunday the nineteenth.
First: But you said it was the nineteenth yesterday.
Second. It changed AGAIN? Crap, better add another leap day.
Caption: My new simplified calendar system assumes the date never changes, then corrects any drift via leap days.
{{Title text: The flood of PermaCalNTP leap-second notifications was bad enough, but when people started asking for millisecond resolution, the resulting DDOS brought down the internet.}}
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