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## falsehoods-programming-time-list.md

      
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                Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list
              
          
    Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.
Don't re-invent a date time library yourself.
If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.
Falsehoods


There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).