Error'd: Squaring the Circle
Time LordJason H.has lost control of his calendar."This is from my credit card company. A major company you have definitelyheard of and depending upon the size of the area you live in, theymay even have a bank branch near you. I've reloaded the page andclicked the sort button multiple times to order the rows by datein both ascending and descending order. It always ends up the same. May 17th and 18th happened twice, but not in the expected order." I must say that it is more fun when we know who they are.
A job hunter with the unlikely appelation full_namesuggested titling this "[submission_title]" which seems appropriate.
"The browser wars continue to fall out in HTML email," reports Ben S."Looking at the source code of this email, it was evidently written by & for Microsoft products (including <center> tags!), and the author likely never saw the non-Microsoft version I'm seeing where only a haphazard assortment of the links are styled. But that doesn't explain why it's AN ELEVEN POINT SCALE arranged in a GRID."
"The owl knows who you are," sagely stated Jan. "This happens when you follow someone back. I love how I didn'thave to anonymize anything in the screenshot."
"Location, location, location!" crows Tim K. who is definitely not a Time Lord. "Snarky snippet: Found while cleaning up miscellaneous accountsheld by a former employee. By now we all know to expect how theselists are sorted, but what kind of sadist *created* it?Longer explanation: I wasn't sure what screenshot to sendwith this one, it just makes less and less sense the more Ilook at it, and no single segment of the list contains all ofthe treasures it hides. "America" seems to refer to the entirewestern hemisphere, but from there we either drill down directlyto a city, or sometimes to a US state, then a city, orsometimes just to a country. The only context that indicateswe're talking about Jamaica the island rather than Jamaica, NYis the timezone listed, assuming we can even trust those.Also, that differentiator only works during DST. There are eightentries for Indiana. There are TEN entries for the Antarctic."
Well.
In this case, there is a perfectly good explanation. TRWTFis time zones, that's all there is to it. These are theofficial IANA names as recorded in the public TZDB.In other words, this list wasn't concocted by a mere sadist, oh no.This list was cooked up by an entire committee! If you have thecourage, you can learn more than you ever wanted to know about timeat theIANA time zones website
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