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The frist thing I noticed was the discrepancy between using
Convert.TodateTime(string)in one place andDateTime.Parse(string)in another. The only difference is that if the argument is null,Convert()returnsDateTime.MinValuewhereasDateTime.Parse()throwsArgumentNullExceptionGood bet the devs in question a) didn't know that and b) aren't trying to null-guard. They just hate being consistent in anything they do. Just like with their f-ed up naming. Maybe "hate" is too strong a word. Perhaps better said they're too haphazard a thinker to be consistent.
In terms of quality, haphazard thinking and software development go together about like water and electricity. In terms of commonality, it's more like peanut butter and jelly. Sigh.
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I was actually consider stop reading after Convert.ToDateTime but they lost me at ) with no CultureInfo in sight. At this point it really doesn't matter what the rest of the article has to say, because there's no coming back from that point.
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I worked many years in a big engineering company, one with 100k people and B$ of revenues, where SAP was used to manage working hours in a decimal number format
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To be fair if you are charging by the hour just keeping the hours logged rather than some sort of date structure makes perfect sense.
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I always say .NET's conversions should have defaulted to InvariantCulture instead of localized stuff.
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You hate Hungarian Notation, well, I hate Hungarian Notation and ASP.NET webforms. 😆
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Yeah, and InvariantCulture should have defaulted to ISO standards than some random local nonsense pretty much nobody in the world uses :-) But eh, .net is far from perfect by any means even though it is superior in many ways over it's direct and even indirect competitors.