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What’s really sad is that this was obvious in 1995. If they’d taken a slightly longer time back then, millions of developers would have avoided tripping over th

by acdha 10mo ago

What’s really sad is that this was obvious in 1995. If they’d taken a slightly longer time back then, millions of developers would have avoided tripping over those unnecessary quirks.

agos 10mo ago
to be fair, a lot of lessons about date/time API came way after that year
- acdha 10mo ago
  Some, yes, but if you looked at what was common outside of C programs this was antiquated even then. A SQL developer didn’t have to apply offsets and had better primitives for date math.