Article 6KVZG Error'd: Past Imperfect

Error'd: Past Imperfect

by
Lyle Seaman
from The Daily WTF on (#6KVZG)

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 Francois P. "I was running a return of a phone through a big companywebsite that shall not be named. Thankfully, they processedmy order on April 1st 2024, or 202441 in Japanese.There is a slight delay though as it shows 142024, whichshould be the 14th month of 2024.Dates are hard. Date formatting is complicated. Forinternational date formatting, please come back later."

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At some time in the past, the originalAdam R. encountered a time slip. We're just getting to see it even now."GitHub must be operating on a different calendar thanthe Gregorian. Comments made just 4 weeks ago [today is 2023-02-07] arebeing displayed as made last year."

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