What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today

The plainly wrong behavior of a ubiquitous Python library echoes a British astronomical report from 1884.

Fighting the Clock in the Amherst General Strike of 1919

How the demand for a shorter work day in this small Nova Scotia town fused with the anger about Canadian daylight saving time.

How the Government Shutdown Warps Time Itself!

The curious causal chain connecting the federal government shutdown to computer timekeeping and leap seconds.

The Social Trumps the Mechanical

Like the problems with time zones and daylight saving, "Japan's Y2K bug" is a problem of society breaking software, not software breaking itself.