Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Saagar Jha)
@saagar I did actually do a bit of research for this… I went to the Wikipedia page for the Gregorian calendar to check I remembered the leap year algorithm correctly, how long its cycles are, and also to remind me how long each month of the year is…
but the constants I ended up using can be trivially derived from things most people know (how long is a year, what is a leap year, how long is an hour, how long is a day)
Saagar Jha
(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari So like I know what all the constants are, the concern I would generally have is “do I need to care about things like leap seconds”
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Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Saagar Jha)
@saagar ah, right, my particular kind of curious mind meant I already knew the answer to that (no) but most people wouldn't
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@saagar I think, as an interview question, I wouldn't want to penalise someone for not knowing, it's just interesting to see how they go about trying to solve it considering what they do know