when we start living on other planets:

- all date time libraries are going to have to be rewritten
- timezones will require you to specify what planet you're on
- will have to include / account for potential transmission delays between planets
- what will be the UTC for interplanetary comms - prob earth

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

"distributed systems engineer" is about to take a whole different meaning.

"oh your 'distributed' system runs on Earth only? that's cute"

Agreed

Latency going from a matter of nanoseconds, microseconds -> minutes, hours, days, or even worse, years

Is going to fundamentally change a lot of accepted truths around distributed systems, CS - currently all very earth centric (and rightfully so)