Why does the time package only define durations up to Hour?
I am doing a lot of work right now that requires day and year durations and I have to define those myself. I wonder why they didn't include those in the time package.
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If they provided constants, someone would complain that they produce the wrong result for daylight savings or leap years.
This - no one can agree how long a day, week, month, year etc are!
Like sure it's 24 hours in a day but is a year 365 days? No, not technically speaking.
Time has always been really hard for programmers.
Well now I need to go add some tests and fix some bugs. Thanks yall.