Error'd: It's About Time

Usually I have to save up a few weeks' worth of error'ds to get five of a kind, but this week we got a rash of funky date entries! I guess we were due.

First upTim R. reminding us here that "Dates are difficult!...but when theentire purpose of your web site is to convert thetime to different time zones, I'm not inclined to giveyou much slack for being one hour out."

And an anonymous reader who just doesn't trust big tech."In my calendar I have a monthly reminder to clearmy data MS data manually. Now you know why, althoughI don't expect this will come as a surprise toanyone." Note the date on the lower right of the screenshot.

"June has 30 days, so 31 was not accepted," repeats Daniel D. incredulously."I needed to calculate day difference between two dates. SoI entered June 30 (as shown) only to get thiserror message. Now - should I trust that calculator tocalculate date differences, what you say?"

Daniel D. went on to share with us a couple of images from "A well-known e-commerce website in Central Europe that allows you tofilter by battery life! Only it randomly switchesto seconds." Yes, randomly. See the second image too.

And finally this week, Marc Wurth identified a novel Network Solutions Domain History Date Format(TM)"In other places, they displayed dates formatted as "01/13/2025", forexample. I guess, instead of using actual ISO 8601, theyjust flipped the order and replaced the slashes with dashes."

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