:fa_calendar: :fa_plus: :fa_plus: What's Fucking Up Today: 2016
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So, it's a leap year! And despite it being 2016, there's still plenty of hand-rolled DateTime shit out there.
So, what's fucking up for you today?
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Not a damned thing. Which astonishes me.
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All systems nominal..... and that flipping scares me given what i know of our systems.
/me resumes waiting for the shoe to drop.
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I keep seeing all these weird discount alerts. Have all these retailers been hacked?
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Dammit, we should have added the day to March.
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Communication breakdown between two of our applications. Someone had trouble counting days in the future ... like we have today and I add 3 that gives me ... today!
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I hate that. All day you're going to be going "what have I missed...?"
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The point is to increase the discount as much as....
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Interesting question.
Do I share my birthday with all leap year babies on 3 out of 4 years?
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I know, but mine is funnier to me.
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Is it your birthday? What are you now, 5? 6? 7?
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I'm always 2 years older than my daughter, according to her.
My wife is 1 year older, even though my wife is older than I am.Oh, I get it.
I'm asking if I share birthdays with leap year babies on 3 out of 4 years. Meaning, my birthday is tomorrow.
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I'm not certain it's a leap Day thing, but .net was fucking me over when using Danish culture to parse an exact date. Changing to culture invariant worked. I have no damn idea why. It worked Yesterday .
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The other way around once was even a main topic of a famous German book for children (written by Michael Ende, the author of The Neverending Story and Momo).
It had this band of pirate brothers who called themselves the "Wild 13". When the protagonist finally caught up with them, he counted them and arrived at a head count of 12. When interrogated about it, the brothers said:
"Well, we are 12 and one is the boss, that makes 13!"
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Oh, I see.
The way I count it, my childhood friend who is a leap year baby is only 7 now :)
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Hmm.... That's an oddly specific discount...
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256% off!!!
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What's @#$%ing up today? Only the usual suspects:
It survived a refresh, as usual.
Really, we should all celebrate this day as an extra day in the year to truly appreciate the full impact that is Discourse.
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The weekly backup that requires 2 tapes didn't swap them automagically and happened to stop with locks held on the old outdated HR database for the application that we will "never use again". Not that the error message said anything like that while they were trying to access it this morning (and managed to piss off a manager while bitching about our lack of any data retention or ownership policy and making a joke about deleting it due to spring cleaning)...
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appreciate the full impact that is Discourse.
Balaam tried to use Discourse and it caused him to curse Israel.
Numbers 23:7
And he took up his discourse and said,
“From Aram Balak has brought me,
Moab’s king from the mountains of the East,
‘Come curse Jacob for me,
And come, denounce Israel!’The evil of discourse is Biblical.
Paul never had anything good to say about the software.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For we have not at any time been [among you] with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God [is] witness;
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Words for our day, amirite?
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The way I count it, my childhood friend who is a leap year baby is only 7 now
As you may know, this is a major plot point in Pirates of Penzance.
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Oh, I see.
The way I count it, my childhood friend who is a leap year baby is only 7 now
As someone who narrowly missed being born on leap day, it was always a pet peeve of my when someone would say...
Oh if you were born just a little bit later you would only N YEARS old.
No, I would still be the same number of YEARS old as I am now, I just would have had only N birthdays.
I see you were specifically not saying "years".
According to: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/age
The first definition of age is:
the amount of time during which a person or animal has lived
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I guess this is an oddly specific meme now?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
there's still plenty of hand-rolled DateTime shit out there.
I did a talk about datetimes in SQL Server awhile ago. Trying to convince people that the only really solid way is to use a persisted calendar, because datetime math sucks, and human calendars, timezones, etc don't operate in any sane way. Add on "enterprise" calendars like the 4-4-5 accounting calendar...
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We have a demo today, to someone ~two levels up in the org chart.
Fortunately it's the first of March in this timezone.
Unfortunately, nothing works anyway.
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Biggest WTF ever: Suddenly a shitty application totally unexpectedly starts ACTUALLY WORKING today when it is completely expected to shit the bed. Who would have ever expected that?
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NodeBB fucked up and accidentally released 1.0 on leap day, so NodeBB isn't going to have its second birthday until Discourse's 10 years are over.
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How does that work??
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@Lorne_Kates said:
So, what's fucking up for you today?
My wristwatch — it’s digital, yet for some reason you can’t set the year on it, so yesterday it claimed was 1 March (and I only noticed around 22:30 hours :) ). Which reminds me that I still have to adjust the date.
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I have a watch with a digital DD.MM.YY display. I wonder what's going to happen in 2100 ...
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> the amount of time during which a person or animal has lived
So we're counting stuff like proper AIs we might have one day (a person who is not an animal), but not plants?
Definition not approved! Dictionary writers need to take biology again.
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March 0: A day for index base flamewars!
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/consider-changing-your-password/54820/84?u=pjh
Presuming they didn't happen around the 32nd or 0th of the month of course...
Hanzilla'd
Both of them. By 4 days...
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My sister's workplace went tits up for four hours yesterday. Something to do with a 16 year old now being four...
One of our client's databases had to be taken offline for four yearly maintenance. I'm shocked that my workplace actually had nothing to do with it.
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Definition not approved! Dictionary writers need to take biology again.
So you would have age only apply to multi-cellular organisms? What about our single celled friends, you multicellist? And what about inanimate objects, you life-ist?
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So you would have age only apply to multi-cellular organisms?
My mistake there, the bacteria domain should be recognized.
And what about inanimate objects, you life-ist?
I did not want to get into linguistic discussions on that myself, being ESL and all, there might be legitimate reasons for leaving that out so I didn't comment on that.
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"days in prev month" not leap-year aware, just blindly counts backwards from 28 for Feb.
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This is a system my boss built/maintains, I'll log a bug with him. He won't be able to fix it but it'll annoy him.
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. He won't be able to fix it
Well, that's just a mean assumption of you. It should be easy to fix once you're aware of the problem.
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As an aside: we do break hard on leap seconds and minutes. 61 seconds in a minute and 61 minutes in an hour do not play. Fortunately our upstream systems are worse and are down for maintenance for most of those.
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As an aside: we do break hard on leap seconds and minutes. 61 seconds in a minute and 61 minutes in an hour do not play. Fortunately our upstream systems are worse and are down for maintenance for most of those.
WTF is a leap minute?
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WTF is a leap minute?
The "minute that has a leap-second in it"?
More seriously (hah!): http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/program/presentations/11_AAS_13-510.ppt.pdf
“Several years ago, some scientists suggested scheduling a leap hour for the year 2600. This idea was abandoned as impractical, given that the instructions would have to be left for people six centuries hence. But could there instead be, say, a leap minute every half century?”
“I am wondering there has been enough discussion regarding introducing 'leap minute' instead of leap second.” [as an alternative proposal]
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Exactly what it sounds like. A calendar year is 365 days. A solar year is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45ish seconds and, crucially, because orbital dynamics are a bitch, varies slightly and chaotically.
Leap days go a long way towards correcting the difference, but we have to add seconds here and there to cover the rest.
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I did not want to get into linguistic discussions on that myself, being ESL and all, there might be legitimate reasons for leaving that out so I didn't comment on that.
What did I start?
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@abarker said:
So you would have age only apply to multi-cellular organisms?
My mistake there, the bacteria domain should be recognized.
And now you're leaving out fungi! Will your biases know no bounds?
@abarker said:
And what about inanimate objects, you life-ist?
I did not want to get into linguistic discussions on that myself, being ESL and all, there might be legitimate reasons for leaving that out so I didn't comment on that.
Good point, using duration of life to define age might be difficult for inanimate objects. We need another definition of age for those!