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Two contrasting viewpoints on time divide prominent philosophers. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe – a dimension independent of events, in which events occur in sequence. Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of "container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be travelled.

Time in physics is unambiguously operationally defined as "what a clock reads". See Units of Time. Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in both the International System of Units and International System of Quantities. Time is used to define other quantities – such as velocity – so defining time in terms of such quantities would result in circularity of definition.

— Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time

 
Imagine that…​ Circular dependency. Been there done that! Now lets get serious. I don’t understand most of this text( sure I do) and it doesn’t seem simple to me. Something about time is and we don’t know what exactly but it’s there and we measure it? Huh?

Time is not simple I can tell you that! A real pickle this time is!

So far Clojure thought me a few things. Make simple easy and use functions without side effects that operate over immutable values to always produce same results for same input. Simple! (hope not Simpleton)

What do I care about time?

As a programmer usually I wan’t to know who did something at some point. Who is planning to do something at given point in time? How long did something take? Who is on sick leave or how long will somebody be on a vacation? Who liked my post and when did he liked it? How old was he/she and when was the post posted? I wish I was working on larger questions, pushing limits working with nanoseconds, estimating computation time and pushing precision to the edge. But I don’t. To be honest most of the time it’s always the same thing.

This happend then and that took this long.

— Me

The point!

Vura was not created to deal with real challenges of time computation, nor does it provide out of the box solution for formatting. It doesn’t try to solve all problems just one. How to work with time as value?