• new arrival (unregistered)

    I Don't Deliver Parcels in Beijing

  • (nodebb)

    Wouldn't be surprised if the column has a default value of 0 and for April the kid of the boss interning forgot for April to set the value.

  • Foo AKA Fooo (unregistered)

    #3 might just be someone who read "AM" on some American site and assumed it meant hours, not even considering that some countries might use such a crazy system for times.

  • (nodebb) in reply to new arrival

    I Don't Deliver Parcels in Beijing

    When a parcel comes around, you must whippet...

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered)

    mnd 8 = "augustsus"? SUS? Oh, and: januari, februari, nikolausi, osterhasi...

  • Hmmmm (unregistered)

    You know, I thought I might have had a bug at line 1, between columns 23000 and 27000!

  • A Human (unregistered) in reply to Foo AKA Fooo

    such a crazy system for times

    What's crazy about specifying whether it's the morning or the afternoon?

  • linepro (unregistered) in reply to Officer Johnny Holzkopf

    Dutch to be sure, but the entire table is a WTF given even RegressSQL has builtins to determine month number.

  • (nodebb)

    I don't recognize which UI/IDE they're using to view the table.

    But I wonder if the blue highlight is a sign they just overtyped a zero into a field that did contain a 4. Which zero will be committed to the DB if they move the UI cursor off the cell. But which can also be screenshot for the seeming ETF then harmlessly escaped out of.

    If instead the zero is the actual DB table contents then I'm gonna bet the table isn't referenced anywhere, or this is a shiny new bug from yesterday's work.

    Addendum 2026-05-23 06:52: ... seeming WTF...

    of course.

  • Foo AKA Fooo (unregistered) in reply to A Human

    It's crazy to use a system that needs this specification in the first place. But while you're at it, why not count months from 1-6 AS and 1-6 PS (ante/post solstitium), along with people arguing whether June and December should be AS or PS. ;)

  • enkorvaks (unregistered)

    I think I found the problem with the return: It's the case of the letters in "A-z Guarantee", it should be "A-Z Guarantee" amirite?

  • Graham (unregistered) in reply to enkorvaks

    TRWTF is living in a country which has the concept that a mail order vendor can reject a return! I guess the steamboat from the civilised world has not arrived yet in this 19th century location.

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