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Determining whether a date is in December

Last post 01-07-2009 7:35 AM by julmu. 13 replies.
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  • 01-06-2009 9:23 AM

    Determining whether a date is in December

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    Shouldn't be that tricky, but perusing this very site for posts that I'd missed during the Christmas break, I found:

    January 1st is included in the December archives.  Bug or feature?

  • 01-06-2009 9:29 AM In reply to

    Re: Determining whether a date is in December

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    Feature!
    It gives you a preview of what's to come next year. ...Except that it's already there.

    — Flurp.

  • 01-06-2009 9:44 AM In reply to

    Re: Determining whether a date is in December

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    Could be a time zone issue — the timestamp getting translated into your time zone (GMT, by your profile) in one place but not in the other.

    It's included in both December and January archives for me.

  • 01-06-2009 10:00 AM In reply to

    • lolwtf
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    Re: Determining whether a date is in December

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    Maybe just because there are comments from January?
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  • 01-06-2009 11:05 AM In reply to

    Re: Determining whether a date is in December

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    The previous article, "Classic WTF: The Harbinger of the Epoch", has comments from both December and January, but only appears in the December archives.

  • 01-06-2009 11:29 AM In reply to

    • Steeldragon
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    Re: Determining whether a date is in December

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    Nope. though it is an interesting bug.

    newfunction=noitcnufwen
    begin
    {{{If
    {Read(WTF)=True
    {ReturnValue(x<y<x)}}}}
    Or
    {If
    {Read(WTF)=False

  • 01-06-2009 11:49 AM In reply to

    Re: Determining whether a date is in December

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    Wait.

    That's IE6.

    Why?

    — Flurp.

  • 01-06-2009 12:45 PM In reply to

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    IE 6 with Pfizer branding, no less.

  • 01-06-2009 2:36 PM In reply to

    Re: Determining whether a date is in December

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    The interesting thing about this WTF is the article's content: it's about a calendar bug, much like the one the Zune tripped on Dec 31, 2008.  Hmm... coincidence?

  • 01-06-2009 8:17 PM In reply to

    • lolwtf
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    Re: Determining whether a date is in December

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    Someone You Know:

    IE 6 with Pfizer branding, no less.



    Lower if he works for Pfizer, but still up there.
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  • 01-06-2009 8:48 PM In reply to

    • tster
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    Re: Determining whether a date is in December

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    lolwtf:
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    IE 6 with Pfizer branding, no less.



    Lower if he works for Pfizer, but still up there.
     

    I'm confused.  How is this a WTF?  My computer at work still uses IE6 because there are internal sites that only work with IE6.

    The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup. The dove fly. Fly is in sky. The dove drop something. The something on the pig. The pig disgusting... see bio for the earth shattering ending.

  • 01-07-2009 12:30 AM In reply to

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    tster:
    I'm confused.  How is this a WTF?  My computer at work still uses IE6 because there are internal sites that only work with IE6.

    I bet they paid a lot of money for those internal sites too.  My employer certainly did.

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  • 01-07-2009 4:55 AM In reply to

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    tstr wins. I am indeed forced to use IE6 because the key internal WTFy web app that I use all day has only been "validated" for use with IE6. The web app is basically just a GUI for launching batch jobs. Apparently if I were to use IE7 or Firefox to launch a batch job, it might produce different results.

    The irony is that the web app only barely works in IE6. I regularly get trapped in multiply-nested frames, sometimes the browsing history gets deleted to that the Back button stops working, etc. It's great.

  • 01-07-2009 7:35 AM In reply to

    • julmu
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    Re: Determining whether a date is in December

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    tster:

    lolwtf:
    Someone You Know:

    IE 6 with Pfizer branding, no less.



    Lower if he works for Pfizer, but still up there.
     

    I'm confused.  How is this a WTF?  My computer at work still uses IE6 because there are internal sites that only work with IE6.

    WTF?!

    If these sites only work with IE6, then they are probably a WTF as well. Pls post teh codez.

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