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This is more an implementation detail but if a clock runs fast it will occasionally need to be set back to stop if from drifting too much. If this is...
Right now we are in the year 111 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_calendar
False. In public transportation it's common to have 27 or 28 hours per day. As the services start around 4 or 5 AM and end, sometimes, around 2 ou 3...
False. During the Second World War, the United Kingdom adopted "Double British Summer Time" and put the clocks forward by two hours, in order to maximise available daylight hours (during...
The Monrovia timezone offset until 7th January 1972 was 44.5 min, not 44 min. See [Time in Liberia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Liberia). (The cited Wikipedia page [UTC−00:44](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9200:44) is wrong on this.)
A few spots on the page reference the 'current year', and that needs at least annual updating.
Hi, I added an anchor to each fallacy in index.md to be able to share a direct link to one particular item. This fixes issue #24 I created. Once an...
It would be nice to have an easy way to link to a specific fallacy in a way that I can access from an iPhone (so no right-click to get...
See https://www.jdieter.net/posts/2021/03/28/the-paddys-day-bug/ and the fix in systemd at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/ca83c7f88c4489038aeee60a305a811dd21faaed
