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Are the years intended to be read in octal?
by rom1v 11mo ago
Are the years intended to be read in octal?
- kijin 11mo agoAccording to javascript, 01971 is just 1971. Meanwhile, 01671 is 953.
- kragen 11mo agoMan! JS never stops trolling you.
- drfuchs 11mo agoThat’s a ZipCode.
- nappy-doo 11mo agoIt's one of these Long Now things. The goal is to get people to think in long term time frames.
- walkabout 11mo agoThey’re intended to derail every thread that includes them into discussions about this stupid date format, thus wasting lifetimes of person-hours. It’s surely an effort by misanthropes who want the worst for humanity. If it’s coming from any benign motivation, then it’s totally misguided.
- dinkelberg 11mo agoI'm sorry, but this reads somewhat misanthropical itself. Let people have some fun?
- walkabout 11mo agoThey’re trolls. They’ve been doing this for years. It’s just trolling.