• anon (unregistered) in reply to JeffS
    JeffS:
    HAS ANYBODY MENTIONED THAT ITS SUPPOSED TO BE SEPT 19 2009

    NO YOURE THE FIRST PLEASE DO NOT SCROLL UP TO VERIFY THIS ALSO PLEASE CONTINUE TO USE ALL CAPS AND NO PUNCTUATION WELL DONE YOU

  • (cs) in reply to Peas
    Peas:
    I guess those peas aren't young and tender anymore... they must be old and wrinkly by now.
    Don't discriminate based on age. Like John Lennon said: "Give peas a chance."
  • alphabet (unregistered)

    Mysteriously missing a few letters. ;-)

    captcha: damnum

  • skin256 (unregistered) in reply to Mii
    Mii:
    The "Windows - No Disk" error is actually a virus/trojan.. you might want to run a virus scan...

    The "No Windows Disk" is a step up IMHO.

  • Hoti (unregistered)

    Just put in a space: Sep 1909 = Sep 19 09

  • t (unregistered) in reply to Hoti
    Hoti:
    Just put in a space: Sep 1909 = Sep 19 09
    oh good spot... why did no one else see that?!
  • DavidN (unregistered)

    Is it EVE Online?

  • (cs)

    The Camera one is clearly Photoshopped!

  • (cs) in reply to pbean
    pbean:
    No rocket scientists would use SEP 1909 as well.
    Good demonstration of the usefulness of punctuation.
  • t (unregistered) in reply to DavidN
    DavidN:
    Is it EVE Online?
    Might be- be useful to see if any one else thinks this...

    Captcha: WhichCaptcha()

  • Micah (unregistered)

    WTF? Why discriminate against W and Y in the Tomboy alphabet. It's a conspiracy, I tell you!

  • Anders Hesselbom's responder (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    if that's the millennium bug, it took 8 years to notice? phew!

  • nah (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    September 19th, 2009 nimrod.

  • (cs) in reply to Dave
    Dave:
    The real wtf is the lack of 'W'
    If only January 20 would come faster... Or better, these last 8 years were lacking W in the first place.
  • Marc B (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    What today's economy needs is another good ol' y2k crisis to pull us out of this downward spiral.

  • carl sagan (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    In fairness, I think that's supposed to be Sept 19, 2009.

  • e (unregistered)

    19th Septebmer 2009 would be the one

    CAPTCHA: damnum (as in damnum all for not writing dates correctly)

  • Fly In The Ointment (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    Date parse error. 9/19/09.

  • (cs) in reply to Lyle
    Lyle:
    Hiding:
    You hit the shelter and find all your tinned goods are a century out of date. Now what do you do?
    Who cares, the shelter is now full of brain starved zombies. Now what do you do?

    Pretend to be a String Theorist.

  • (cs)

    Frozen peas == Relief from post-vasectomy swelling.

  • The best cod3r of all (unregistered) in reply to carl sagan
    carl sagan:
    In fairness, I think that's supposed to be Sept 19, 2009.

    At my company, when a programmer incorrectly interprets a date format in a document circulated to the company, we require every employee of the company to stop his desk and personally tell him that he incorrectly interpretted the date format. Any employee who doesn't personally weigh in on this will be fired for being obviously too stupid to notice the problem. The fact that someone else already pointed out the problem is no excuse.

  • yah (unregistered) in reply to The best cod3r of all
    The best cod3r of all:
    carl sagan:
    In fairness, I think that's supposed to be Sept 19, 2009.

    At my company, when a programmer incorrectly interprets a date format in a document circulated to the company, we require every employee of the company to stop his desk and personally tell him that he incorrectly interpretted the date format. Any employee who doesn't personally weigh in on this will be fired for being obviously too stupid to notice the problem. The fact that someone else already pointed out the problem is no excuse.

    He has a mobile desk?

  • kahuna (unregistered)

    i don't think it's a millenium bug, just a missing space... should be "sep 19 09", i.e. the 19th of September.

  • JP (unregistered) in reply to Dave

    ... and y.

  • Jsut (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    Pretty sure it's just a missing space.

  • Ebs2002 (unregistered)

    Rosebud...

    Yes, Rosebud frozen peas. Full of country goodness, and green pea-ness.

    Wait, that's terrible. I quit!

    ... Just a handful for the road...

    Oh, what luck! There's a french fry stuck in my beard!

  • WhiteSpace (unregistered) in reply to Jsut
    Jsut:
    Pretty sure it's just a missing space.

    ...and it's possible that the printer only prints 8 chars wide so a space can't be added. Some guy's out there getting ready to submit his "I told the boss to buy the 9 char frozen produce printer" WTF

  • (cs) in reply to t
    t:
    ...of course, had they just written the date properly "19 Sep 09", even a lack of spaces would still give a clear, unambiguous BBdate.
    They'd only do it after getting sued for misleading customers. So, do this:
    • Buy peas that have an expiration date of 21 Sep 09 (so it will read "Sep 2109"
    • Keep 'em frozen untill September 2010
    • Eat 'em and get sick
    • Sue them (your honor, this thing said it would expire by September 2109!)
    • ????
    • Profit!!
  • (cs) in reply to nah
    nah:
    September 19th, 2009 nimrod.
    And what, exactly, has this got to do with hunters?
  • (cs)

    Uh, it's the SELL BY date, not the EAT BY date. Unless these peas weren't purchased and kept frozen 100 years ago, they're good to eat.

  • (cs)

    Granite countertop FTL?

  • WTF (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent

    Did anyone mention it's supposed to be Sept 19/09 yet?

    Code Dependent:
    Photoshop photoshop photoshop photoshop photoshop photoshop photoshop photoshop Mushroom mushroom
    Ahh, worm, ah, worm, ohh, it's a worm...
  • NoAstronomer (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom
    Anders Hesselbom:
    It is good to see the old millennium bug. I have missed you. Thanks for all the work you have generated!

    That reminds me I have a couple of window dates I need to move up. brb.

  • The1rob (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    Ya know, it could read Sept 19 2009. I just think the date/year fields got smooshed together.

  • WZD (unregistered)

    My thought is that the date was suposed to say Sept, 19th of '09. I know that's hard to believe but I like to think inside of the box.

  • Tama (unregistered) in reply to pbean
    pbean:
    SuperousOxide:
    Karl von L.:
    TRWTF is that in this day and age they can't print nicely formatted, unambiguous dates on food packages. Is "Sept. 19, 2009" really rocket science?

    But their way saves 4 characters worth of ink. Multiply that by the number of bags of frozen peas...

    Yep and printing "SEP 1909" instead of "SEP 19 09" saves a whole space worth of ink. Omg, the profits!

    1. SEP 1909
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

    19 SEP 09 would be completely unambiguous though.

  • noname (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom
    Anders Hesselbom:
    It is good to see the old millennium bug. I have missed you. Thanks for all the work you have generated!

    I'd call that a century bug.

  • Cory M. (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom
    Anders Hesselbom:
    It is good to see the old millennium bug. I have missed you. Thanks for all the work you have generated!
    Someone just ahead of me in the line for early voting had to wait an extra 5 minutes while they straightened out his voter registration.

    Apparently his right to vote had expired in 1900.

    "45 years before I was born!" he said.

    I guess that explains it. I never got to vote before I was born, so why should he?

  • MWB (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    It is good to see the old millennium bug. I have missed you. Thanks for all the work you have generated!

    I doubt that this is a millennium bug issue. I think it's just a missing space between the day and the year.

  • Billy Madison (unregistered)

    You know the real WTF is everyone who doesn't read the comments and then posts that it really means September 19th, 2009 like they're the only logical person that was able to decipher this monstrous mystery date.

    BTW, did I mention that that the date is really September 19th, 2009 instead of 1909. I am the smartest man alive!!!

  • Wally (unregistered)

    Or September 19, 2009...

  • Kasperd (unregistered) in reply to Dave
    Dave:
    The real wtf is the lack of 'W'
    Y?
  • csm (unregistered)

    Even better, just move the space over: "SEP19 09". No additional char needed.

  • (cs)

    Hey everyone, I think it's supposed to be September 19, 2HBH#$9B &*&#$()+{:].NO CARRIER

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that Vista has decided to change the classic

    "Abort, Retry, Ignore"

    to

    "Cancel, Try Again, Continue"

  • OggJoshua (unregistered)

    ¿ʞɐǝds noʎ ɥɔıɥʍ ɟo „˙ɟ˙ʇ˙ʍ„ sıɥʇ sı ʇɐɥʍ

    'uǝɯǝןʇuǝƃ

    POSTED OCT 1908

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    JeffS:
    HAS ANYBODY MENTIONED THAT ITS SUPPOSED TO BE SEPT 19 2009

    NO YOURE THE FIRST PLEASE DO NOT SCROLL UP TO VERIFY THIS ALSO PLEASE CONTINUE TO USE ALL CAPS AND NO PUNCTUATION WELL DONE YOU

    HEY GO EASY ON HIM. IT IS DIFFICULT TO GET INTERNET DRIVERS FOR THE PDP 10, LET ALONE TO GET LOWERCASE SUPPORT

  • Herohtar (unregistered) in reply to Eric L
    Eric L:
    ... DW (Arnold's sister, some little rat looking thing)...

    You mean Arthur's sister? And they're aardvarks...

  • (cs)

    Not even a weird case in Tomboy - that's just plain ordinary weirdness from the spellcheck. What I'd like to know is who the heck designed the date display code, what they were drinking, and if there's anything left. I mean, how hard do you have to try to mess up date formatting, when the New Leet C# Library probably does all the hard work, right???

    When I open the note search dialog, it says this one particular note was last modified at "+03:00+03:00+03:00+03:00 pv, 03::24 AM". "pv" is supposedly abbreviation for "päivä" ("day"). I have no idea why there's two colons in the time, or why the hell the timezone gets spammed that much in the day field.

    But wait, it gets better! Some older notes I have are apparently dated +03:00+03:00+03:00+03:00 pv vuo45i, 09:23:PM". There's also other manglings of what I believe is supposed to be the word "vuosi" ("year"), like vuo23i, vuo53i and vuo31i.

    (This for Tomboy 0.10.2. in fi_FI locale.)

    Addendum (2008-10-28 19:52): Looks like a plain ordinary localised date format string ("KKKK pv vuosi, hh:mm:tt"), which has been corrected as of 0.12 ("dddd, MMMMn d. yyyy").

  • spellingnazi (unregistered) in reply to anon

    CONGRATULATIONS ON NOT GETTING THE JOKE AND THEN PROCEEDING TO MAKE THE SAME ONE

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