• Jonathan (unregistered)

    What's an example of a date formatted as "YY-MM-DDDD" that Michael T. is referring to?

  • Michael R (unregistered) in reply to Jonathan

    Apr 20, 2026 (compare the post's Due date and Payment Due Date)

  • (nodebb)

    I think he's talking about the left hand due date, which is more mmm yy, dddd format.

    Wouldn't blame that on javascript thought. You can do that sort of idiocy in C quite easily.

  • (nodebb)

    Looks more like a Y2K100 bug in the making, since the format is MM-DD-CCYY(1) on the right, and the left outputs DDD-CC-20MM(2).

    (1) MonthMonth-DayDay-CenturyCenturyYearYear. I presume it's MDY rather than DMY because a due date of 11 May is more logical at this time than having it be on Guy Fawkes Day. ("Remember, remember, the Fifth of November // Gunpowder, treason and plot")

    (2) DayDayDay-CenturyCentury-20MonthMonth, subject to "DayDayDay" meaning "the three-letter abbreviation of the month name, but using DayDay as the month number".

    All in all, an unholy mess.

  • Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; -- (unregistered)

    The left-hand side of the last one is Gmail attempting to parse the date out of the email, it's not part of the email content itself. There's no WTF from Synchrony Bank's side, other than choosing to use the mm-dd-YYYY instead of mm/dd/YYYY (I'm assuming this is a bill due in less than a month from now and not due in 7 months). TRWTF is entirely on Gmail failing to parse it.

  • Slicer (unregistered)

    I sure hope Michael D. did indeed try to check out with that $0 subscription.

  • Argle (unregistered)

    For decades now, I have done dates as YYYY-MM-DD unless someone forces me to do otherwise. I like things to collate, dang it!

  • MRAB (unregistered)

    I see that the response to the CAPTCHA is wrong. It should be uppercase.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; --

    That's a pretty severe FAIL on the part of GMail, then.

  • Neveranull (unregistered)

    Due date: Nov 20, 2005. Amount due $300, plus $18,881 interest since due date (19 years at 22% interest, compounded monthly ), plus late fee = $7,296.

  • Ken Blantowicz (unregistered)

    I never want something to "parse" my email, except my human eyes. I'm not barely-literate.

  • (nodebb)

    I think the biggest WTF this weekend is some marketing weenie naming an API suite "Infura". Were I using their product in our shop I'm sure the name would quickly become "Infuriating" after all the WTFs We'd be stuck dealing with in their API & bug set.

    Hint there MarketingBeasts: When naming things, best to avoid terms that suggest failure or other bad things about your product.

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