• Bogolese (unregistered)

    So you can get MREs on Amazon? Of course!

  • Jonathan (unregistered)

    With the F1 site I suspect the validation issue only occurs for some of the visitors depending on their OS's locale's date format. One of the validations uses the the users' date format, a different validation (or the control or something) is using a hard coded date format which doesn't automatically change depending on the users' locale.

  • (nodebb)

    If 1 = 2, that explains a lot about this plane of reality.

  • (nodebb)

    A belated slainte'chaim to you too Lyle!

  • David Green (unregistered) in reply to jkshapiro

    Yeah, that's super clever.

  • (nodebb)

    I'm not sure why anyone thinks the last one is a WTF. You have an upper brand (Ricola) which is 24-per-packet, and you have an "other" brand, called "365"(1), which is 30-per-packet. OK, it's a bit goofy to have a number as your brand, but what exactly is the vendor site supposed to do in such a case?

    (1) Full name "365 by Whole Foods", naturally.

    Addendum 2022-03-18 08:42: I call Ricola an upper brand solely because of the prices, of course.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Bogolese

    The late Mrs Cynic was formerly (long before I met her) a teletype maintenance technician in the USAF, and she had exactly nothing good to say about MREs...

  • RussellF (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    You're misunderstanding the issue -- the problem is that the header says "1 results" when it should say "2 results"

  • RussellF (unregistered) in reply to RussellF

    Oh, no, my mistake; I missed that Steve was making a joke.

  • David Jackson (unregistered)

    I'm aware that Thursday was St Patrick's day (although as a Englishman, it's not a particularly significant day), but what else was it?

  • (author) in reply to David Jackson

    Purim and St. Pat's intersected this year for the first time in ~70 years. There's even a song about it, though I'm not sure if I should recommend it. It's arguably funnier than this column. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF4GOKqBRVQ

  • MaxiTB (unregistered)

    Haha, the date one is funny, because in the textbox you have the Italian date while the red text is the American one. mm/dd/yyyy is really weird, because it's not most significant to least significant or the other way around, it's kind completely random. No idea who came up with this format, does anyone know how it came to be?

  • OldCoder (unregistered) in reply to MaxiTB

    Americans: Not Invented Here.

  • tbo (unregistered) in reply to RussellF

    Are you sure? I have no idea what Steve's joke is, or what the post is even supposed to mean, unless he missed the joke.

  • tbo (unregistered) in reply to MaxiTB

    My best guess is that at some point the year wasn't super important, and most things number related go largest to smallest (like, well, all numbers ever), so dates were typically "May 7th", for example. Then someone realized, hey, sometimes the year is important, so they just stuck it at the end.

    That, or the American colonies changed the order specifically to be different from Britain. That's what they did with word spellings, after all.

  • (nodebb) in reply to MaxiTB

    I think it came from writing of "January 1, 2022", then "Jan 1, 22", then "1/1/22". But I might be wrong.

  • MaxiTB (unregistered) in reply to Mr. TA

    Hmm, that could be. We write 1. Jänner 2022 (1st (of) January 2022) here. So least significant one first, like in Italy.

  • Argle (unregistered)

    Rule 6: There is NOOOOOO... rule 6.

  • (nodebb) in reply to RussellF

    You're misunderstanding the issue -- the problem is that the header says "1 results" when it should say "2 results"

    Indeed. Oops.

    Oh, no, my mistake; I missed that Steve was making a joke.

    You missed that because I wasn't making a joke. I missed the actual point. My mistake.

  • Kim Bartle (unregistered)

    ISO 8601, or if you really insist, ISO 8601LE, are the only date formats that make sense.

  • Offier Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    In our reality, for huge amounts of 1, 1 = 2, for small amounts of 2, because if 1 gets a lot bigger, it's almost as big as a bit of 2.

  • MaxiTB (unregistered)

    I am still wondering which famous Holidays have actually collided back then. I guess the first one was St. Patrick but what was the second one?

  • (nodebb) in reply to Kim Bartle

    ISO 8601, or if you really insist, ISO 8601LE

    Oh! What's ISO 8601LE?

    I really like ISO 8601 for dates and times, but it's wrong about weekdays (it starts the week on Monday, which is objectively incorrect), so if there's a version that leaves that part out I'll be on top of the world.

  • WTFGuy (unregistered)

    @jkshapiro: You ask what's ISO 8601LE? Obviously it's ISO8601 Little-Endian.

    So it starts with the time zone on the left and ends with the year on the right. So as of when / where I'm typing the correct format of Now() is any of the following:

    00:40+1234.17:28:09T21-03-2022
40+1234.17:28:09T21-03-2022
1234.17:28:09T21-03-2022
17:28:09T21-03-2022
28:09T21-03-2022
09T21-03-2022
21-03-2022
03-2022
2022

    Unless processed on an actually big-endian machine in which case it changes to any of:

    00:04+3412.71:82:90T21-30-2220
04+3412.71:82:90T21-30-2220
3412.71:82:90T21-30-2220
71:82:90T21-30-2220
82:90T21-30-2220
90T21-30-2220
21-30-2220
30-2220
2220
  • Joe (unregistered)

    I'd just like to say that as an American who also writes code, I'd love for us to go to YYYY-MM-DD for the sole reason that even if those dates are stored as text, you can sort them (assuming months and days are padded so they're always 2 digits). You can't do that with MM-DD-YYYY or DD-MM-YYYY, at least not without inverting the string, first. YYYY-MM-DD also seems like the least ambiguous, as nobody anywhere writes their dates as YYYY-DD-MM. Just my 0.02

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