awesome-falsehood VS date

Billing. It always has to be the billing. For a list of all other edge cases, you have: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#readme

Falsehoods Programmers Believe in: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Also, a list of other falsehood-programmers-believe collections: awesome-falsehood.

> I feel like there's a "Fallacies programmers believe about text" that should exist somewhere

I got you covered.

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#international...

http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programme...

https://jeremyhussell.blogspot.com/2017/11/falsehoods-progra...

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/30296

There's an excellent GitHub repo that lists a lot of common falsehoods regarding names. I'm not sure how useful it'll be to OP, but the repo in general should probably have way more attention than it already does.

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#human-identit...

A decent list for this about prices and currency https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585 and the full list of other falsehoods https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

If you're interested in this sort of thing there's a whole bunch more: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

It's saddening to see the number of people who critique the idea of storing time as an unsigned integer by immediately responding that that means that times before 1970 cannot exist. This bespeaks of a continuing poor knowledge of the subject, despite all of the "falsehoods that programmers believe about" documentation that has grown up.

* https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#dates-and-tim...

Microsoft, for one example, has been modelling times as a 64-bit unsigned 100-nanosecond count since 1601 (proleptic-Gregorian proleptic-UTC) for about 30 years, now.

* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinba...

Daniel J. Bernstein in the late 1990s chose a 0 point for an unsigned count so far back that it pre-dates most estimates of the point of the Big Bang.

* http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html

1970 is not the mandatory origin for every timescale. (Indeed, in the early years of Unix itself there wasn't even a stable origin for time.) It is not a valid reason for dismissing the idea of storing time as an unsigned integer.

It's also sad to note that the headlined page's first sentence has one of the very falsehoods that programmers believe about time in it.

> but I'd be surprised if there was not a modern date library for C++

The standard library now includes . AFAIK: It was mostly written by Howard Hinnant. He now has more date/time libs that expand upon : https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date

Ah: https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date/issues/178 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62734974/how-do-i-add-a-number-of-days-to-a-date-in-c20-chrono

If you’re using an earlier standard you can use this, which the ‘official’ date/time zone stuff was based on: https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date

If you don't have C++20, or if your vendor hasn't shipped it yet, here is a free, open-source, header-only preview of this part of C++20 that you can use: https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date

C++20 adds the timezone/caldendaring/formatting from Howard Hinnat’s Date Library https://github.com/howardhinnant/date .

So calendrical calculations and time zone support.

Unfortunately only implemented in MSVC right now, for other compilers and/or if you want to do anything with dates I suggest you use https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date directly, chrono is good enough for measuring time but if you do more complex things it can get a bit wild.

Here is the original calendar library that was adopted in C++20 (corrected link).

In lower C++ standards I would highly recommend including this as a header-only library: https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date. This was the basis for the new date/timezone functionality in C++20, so it's nearly identical and works down to C++11.

So you want date time functionality? Those come with c++20 otherwise you can use this. The author Howard Hinnant is the author of c++ chrono had have a few excellent video on YouTube explaining how to use chrono.