A twitchy anonymous reporter pointed out that our form validation code is flaky. He’s not wrong.
But at least it can report time without needing emoticons! :-3
That same anon sent us the following, explaining
“Folks at Twitch are very brave. So brave, they wrote their own time math.”
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Secret Agent
Sjoerd
reports
“There was no train two minutes ago so I presume I should have caught it in an alternate universe.”
Denver is a key nexus in the multiverse, according to Myka.
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Chilly
Dallin H.
is a tiny bit heated about ambiguous abbreviations – or at least about the software that interprets them with inadequate context.
“With a range that short, I’d hate to take one of the older generation planes.”
At least it might be visible!
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Phoney
François P.
“I was running a return of a phone through a big company
website that shall not be named. Thankfully, they processed
my order on April 1st 2024, or 2024年4月1日 in Japanese.
There is a slight delay though as it shows 14月2024, which
should be the 14th month of 2024.
Dates are hard. Date formatting is complicated. For
international date formatting, please come back later.”
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At some time in the past, the original
Adam R.
encountered a time slip. We’re just getting to see it even now.
“GitHub must be operating on a different calendar than
the Gregorian. Comments made just 4 weeks ago [today is 2023-02-07] are
being displayed as made last year.”
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