This is 20% good advice (e.g. ‘An hour will never occur twice in a single day’) and 80% useless ‘fun facts’ (e.g. ‘The month Pi Kogi Enavot in the Coptic calendar only has 5 or 6 days in it’).
I wish these kinds of sites / articles would concentrate on actual advice and problems.
An earlier, more complete, and funnier version that is not an ad: Falsehoods programmers believe about time.
Ironically, that blog post is dated “Sun, Jun 17th”, so I can’t tell you what year it’s from. Pre-2017, though.
June 17 was most recently a Sunday in 2012.
Ah, you are assuming Gregorian calendar ;)
This is 20% good advice (e.g. ‘An hour will never occur twice in a single day’) and 80% useless ‘fun facts’ (e.g. ‘The month Pi Kogi Enavot in the Coptic calendar only has 5 or 6 days in it’).
I wish these kinds of sites / articles would concentrate on actual advice and problems.
The advice is to use the ICU libraries for calendar stuff…
“Useful” really depends on what you need to do. If I was implementing a Coptic calendaring system, I would certainly want to keep it in mind.
If you were implementing a Coptic calendaring system, you probably shouldn’t be relying on blog posts for your edge-cases.
I can’t help but read this in Dwight Schrute’s voice/style.