this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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Mildly Interesting

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I originally posted this on the other site back when I took the picture, and it resulted in a lot of confused comments, especially from Americans, eventually getting removed by overzealous mods. Either way, I promise you that this date does not exist, and has never existed.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Remember, kids, not to ever compute dates yourselves. Use a library for that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I've made that mistake a couple times, sending bills to people for things like April 31st. Have since swapped to letting python make calendars for me.

[–] Theharpyeagle 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Memories of the old shitty codebase I inherited that had a bunch of if/else statements to add a day every four years. Which, of course, isn't even correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

To be fair, by the time that code will fail, it won’t run anymore for a host of other reasons.