Falsehoods programmers believe

I hope you don't think this is for your benefit, cats and kittens.  I just want to be able to find it again.

I'm in love with these lists of "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About X." In case you haven't had pleasure, I've collected all the ones I know of here. If I missed any, let me know!
People's names do not changePeople’s names have an order to themMy system will never have to deal with names from ChinaI can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in itPeople have namesFalsehoods programmers believe about timeThe time zone in which a program has to run will never changeThe system clock will never be set to a time that is in the distant past or the far futureOne minute on the system clock has exactly the same duration as one minute on any other clockA time stamp of sufficient precision can safely be considered uniqueThe duration of one minute on the system clock would never be more than an hourMore falsehoods programmers believe about time
The local time offset (from UTC) will not change during office hours.
My software is only used internally/locally, so I don’t have to worry about timezones
I can easily maintain a timezone list myself
Time passes at the same speed on top of a mountain and at the bottom of a valley
And there's more, future self. The whole thing here.
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