Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update
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@dkf said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
No love for Julian Days
I don't know who they are.
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@loopback0 said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@dkf said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
No love for Julian Days
I don't know who they are.
Very useful if you're seriously into calendrical calculations.
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@dkf I know what a Julian day is, but I don't know who Julian Days is.
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@loopback0 said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@dkf I know what a Julian day is, but I don't know who Julian Days is.
TIL about…
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@dkf said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@loopback0 said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@dkf said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
No love for Julian Days
I don't know who they are.
Very useful if you're seriously into calendrical calculations.
So, unix timestamp divided by 86400 plus a constant.
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strftime
This reminds me of something...
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/20/iso/What happened? Someone read the strftime man page, and %G alpha-sorts before %Y, so they found it first. Then they didn't "get" the whole warning there, and it looked good enough, so they went with it. The rest pretty much follows from that.
The immediate fix is to change the %G to a %Y, naturally.
A better fix is to get people away from using format strings altogether. Do you really want all of your programmers learning this lesson? Or, do you want to have one person get it right, provide a handful of functions to render the approved formats for either "now" or a supplied time, and then ban all other attempts to use the strings directly, and then go on with life? I know which one I'd rather have.
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@levicki said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@LB_ And what is that supposed to prove? That you haven't clicked Date column header to sort on it? Or are you trying to say that ISO 8601 is inferior to retarded USA date format?
I'm trying to say that neither mm/dd/yyyy nor dd/mm/yyyy is correct.
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@Zecc said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
What part of that do they not understand?
https://i.imgur.com/8lCGl9r.pngThe part I don't understand is why people still write mm/dd — or dd/mm for that matter — when they could write a month's name abbreviation and remove ambiguity.
(even if you're tying yourself to a given language then, that's a battle already lost since you need to pick between mm/dd and dd/mm. You need to pick a locale anyway)
My campaign to allocate 12+31 Unicode codepoints is over --> there. Just scratch some round faces showing teeth fro the next emoji update. (Anybody ever notice how emojis discriminate against people with more elongated face? Clearly, they are designed by old fat white cis-het Americans who stuff themselfs with twinks all day, or whatever those foamcakes are called. Also, seriously lacking in modifiers for more natural shades of teeth color. )
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@PleegWat said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
So, unix timestamp divided by 86400 plus a constant.
Approximately. It's a floating point value though.
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@uschwarz said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@Zecc said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@El_Heffe said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
What part of that do they not understand?
https://i.imgur.com/8lCGl9r.pngThe part I don't understand is why people still write mm/dd — or dd/mm for that matter — when they could write a month's name abbreviation and remove ambiguity.
(even if you're tying yourself to a given language then, that's a battle already lost since you need to pick between mm/dd and dd/mm. You need to pick a locale anyway)
My campaign to allocate 12+31 Unicode codepoints is over --> there. Just scratch some round faces showing teeth fro the next emoji update. (Anybody ever notice how emojis discriminate against people with more elongated face? Clearly, they are designed by old fat white cis-het Americans who stuff themselfs with twinks all day
, or whatever those foamcakes are called. Also, seriously lacking in modifiers for more natural shades of teeth color. )Stuffing their face with twinks? Well, I guess they could?
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@uschwarz said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
who stuff themselfs with twinks all day,
This does indeed mean something, but it really doesn't mean what you think it means.
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@hungrier You all must be some kind of math savants if you truly find "Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:37:23 GMT" easier to read than "one minute ago".
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@anonymous234 said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
@hungrier You all must be some kind of math savants if you truly find "Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:37:23 GMT" easier to read than "one minute ago".
It totally depends on what I'm trying to do with the date and time. This stuff drives me nuts in Jira when I'm looking at when a ticket was entered or something in order to look up the error in the logs. Sure, "one minute ago" is fine, but "Yesterday" is just enraging.
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@loopback0 nah, it's pretty decent overall.
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@levicki said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Human readable times solve one "problem" but create another -- what time was "6 minutes 27 seconds ago"? What if you are looking at a screenshot sent you? How do you know the original time then?
You look at the timestamp of the screenshot, then substract 6 minutes 27 seconds. Easy peasy
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@anonymous234 Math savant or not, I don't find reading a date and time hard. If I see "August 13, 2018" I can figure out how long ago that was, but if it says "about a year ago" it leaves me with some fuzzy range of +/- a year
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@levicki said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
what time was "6 minutes 27 seconds ago"?
Usually you can't even get that. It'll either be "6 minutes ago" if it's been less than half an hour, "about an hour ago" if it's between half and 1.5 hours, etc.
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@levicki said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
What if the screenshot is sent via email?
You just look at the timestamp of the Word file then
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Might as well make the clock on the task bar more friendly - it can show "About now" permanently.
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@loopback0 said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Might as well make the clock on the task bar more friendly - it can show "About now" permanently.
Mine just says "about a minute from now"
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@loopback0 said in Windows Insert Funny Name Variation Update:
Might as well make the clock on the task bar more friendly - it can show "About now" permanently.
According to South Africans I've met it could be more like:
'Just now' -> Roughly now-ish, give or take
'Now now' -> Actually nowFiled under: I18N
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