The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2013-07-14 Reply Admin

Steve The Cynic:
miko:
TRWTF is definitely the murican AM/PM over-complication of it all. Why bother? Why not just give in and do like the rest of the world? The day starts at zero (00:00) and ends at 24 (24:00) because there are 24 hours in a day. Simple as that.
Please convert to the metric system already, so we can speak to each other without confusion... "1 inch is 0.083333333 feet" and "1 cup is 0.0625 gallons" who can keep track of those decimal values? How do you even remember if it's 0.0833 or 0.0625?
I find it easier to remember 12 inches to the foot and 8 pints to the gallon which combines with 2 cups to the pint to give 16 cups to the gallon.

Of course, if you are worrying about the conversion between cups and gallons, you're probably doing something wrong. (Notably: why the hell are you measuring cooking ingredients - the normal stuff you measure in cups - in gallons?)

"If it takes two pints to fill a quart, how many does it take to Philadelphia?"

2013-07-15 Reply Admin

Steve The Cynic:
miko:
TRWTF is definitely the murican AM/PM over-complication of it all. Why bother? Why not just give in and do like the rest of the world? The day starts at zero (00:00) and ends at 24 (24:00) because there are 24 hours in a day. Simple as that.
Please convert to the metric system already, so we can speak to each other without confusion... "1 inch is 0.083333333 feet" and "1 cup is 0.0625 gallons" who can keep track of those decimal values? How do you even remember if it's 0.0833 or 0.0625?
I find it easier to remember 12 inches to the foot and 8 pints to the gallon which combines with 2 cups to the pint to give 16 cups to the gallon.

Of course, if you are worrying about the conversion between cups and gallons, you're probably doing something wrong. (Notably: why the hell are you measuring cooking ingredients - the normal stuff you measure in cups - in gallons?)

That would be make lots of meth.

2013-07-16 Reply Admin

600 = 6:00 am 6 = 6 (am)

1400 = 2:00 pm 24 - 14 = 10 (pm)

1500 = 3:00 pm 24 - 15 = 9 (pm)

Solution: $hour = $hour - 12;

2013-07-18 Reply Admin

I recently started working at a new company, a small startup. The code has gone through many hands in the past year or two, most of whom are no longer with us. When I first started reading through the code I found just about that EXACT same function.

Epoch Fail

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