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Frist! I love the Daily WTF, it is always a good reminder of what NOT to do. Thanks!
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Must be Finno-Serbian notation!
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50 years ago, when there were few libraries available for any platform, it often made sense to roll your own ... but not with timestamps; even the most perfunctory vendor libraries had date functions!
a truly classic wtf. thanks!
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That's just blakeyrat, abusing holes in the comment board in an attempt to get somebody to fix them.
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Logging in the 2 least mutually comprehensible European languages is very special
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If we assume that the desired month format has changed at some point from numeric to short-name form, I think this may once have been a valid form of Apps Hungarian or Semantic Hungarian, using a prefix to indicate that "this variable holds the month number", even though stored as a string. (I would have preferred numMonth to avoid confusion with the data type, though.)
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Should then be strMonthNum
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What a newbie mistake. He should have named it "sIntMonth" so it's clear that it's a string that's holding a textual representation of an int (rather than "March").
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On behalf of all owners and lovers of mongrels (dogs), we strongly object to the use of "mongrel" as a derogative term. We demand an apology (and a safe space).
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Sorry, the world is an unsafe place. Deal with it.
We now return you to the regularly scheduled program (WTF).
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And apparently the world is full of people who are completely lacking in humor and sarcasm detectors, too.
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Would have been funnier, if it felt less true...
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Nobody's mentioned this yet, but I love the fact that this is "M/dd" too. I wonder what happens once October rolls around?
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That's the beauty of this multi layered WTF. The comment's wrong. M is just a single non padding digit for month, returned as a string of course. It's 1/01, 1/02, 1/03. android.text.format.DateFormat uses the same format as SimpleDateFormat.
Similarly the year comment is wrong as well. yy is a two digit padded year. Fortunately that's never used. Well, I guess you have to look for fortune where you can in this mess.
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Yea noticed that too, but who knows:
Jan => '1' Feb => '2' .. Sep => '9' Oct => 'A' Nov => 'B' Dec => 'C'
You see, plenty of room in a single digit for all the months and even a few to spare if some jerk like Julius or Augustus shows up and messes with the calendar again..
Yazeran
Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.
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You had me with 'date'.
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They're too sensitive to leave to an intern. I nominate a private server for personal male.
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Crap, you're right! I just looked at the specs and it is as you said.
So, I guess yesterday the WTF was me.
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Serb here. I think the writer mixed us up with Indians.