After reading through so many of your submissions these last few weeks, I'm beginning to notice certain patterns emerging. One of these patterns is that despite the fact that dates are literally as old as time, people seem pathologically prone to bungling them. Surely our readers are already familiar with the notable "Falsehoods Programmers Believe" series of blog posts, but if you happen somehow to have been living under an Internet rock (or a cabbage leaf) for the last few decades, you might start your time travails at Infinite Undo. The examples here are not the most egregious ever (there are better coming later or sooner) but they are today's:

Famished Dug S. peckishly pronounces "It's about time!"

 

Far luckier Zachary Palmer appears to have found the perfect solution to poor Dug's delayed dinner: "It took the shipping company a little bit to start moving my package, but they made up for it by shipping it faster than the speed of light," says he.

 

Patient Philip awaits his {ship,prince,processor}: " B&H hitting us with hard truth on when the new line of AMD CPUs will really be available."

 

While an apparent contemporary of the latest royal Eric R. creakily complains " This website for tracking my continuing education hours should be smart enough not to let me enter a date in the year 21 AD"

 

But as for His Lateness Himself, royal servant Steve A. has uncovered a scoop fit for Q: