Inability to properly program dates continued to afflict
various websites last week, even though the leap day itself had passed.
Maybe we need a new programming language in which it’s
impossible to forget about timezones, leap years, or Thursday.
Timeless
Thomas
subtweeted
“I’m sure there’s a great date-related WTF story behind this tweet”
Gosh, I can’t imagine what error this could be referring to.
Data historian
Jonathan
babbled
“Today, the 1st of March, is the start of a new tax year
here and my brother wanted to pull the last years worth
of transactions from a financial institution to declare
his taxes. Of course the real WTF is that they only allow up to 12 months.”
I am not able rightly to apprehend the
confusion of ideas that could provoke such an error’d.
Ancient
Matthew S.
breathed a big sigh of relief on seeing this result:
“Good to know that I’m up to date as of 422 years ago!”
Jaroslaw
gibed
“Looks like a translation mishap… What if I didn’t knew English?”
Indeed.
Hardjay vexillologist
Julien
casts some shade without telling us where to direct our disdain
“I don’t think you can have dark mode country flags…”
He’s not wrong.
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