A tad dreich out today. pic.twitter.com/ulExCOGc1h
Cavalorn Getting the date of the Winter Solstice wrong is of course an ancient pagan tradition
Seej500 i mean, we joke about how appallingly bad the BBC is at fact-checking these days, but tweeting out the wrong date of the winter solstice from the official & main BBC account is pretty fucking on the nose twitter.com/BBC/status/120…
@yandrewmoore @NmVAson Because date libraries in any language are an infinitely deep well of crawling hysterical darkness from which there can be no escape. Which is, ironically, why every company writes their own at some point, thus shooting themselves in the foot with their very own tentacled horror.
NmVAson PSA: TIS THE SEASON TO CHECK YOUR FORMATTERS, PEOPLE
TIL that Java’s DateTimeFormatter pattern “YYYY” gives you the week-based-year, (by default, ISO-8601 standard) the year of the Thursday of that week.
12/29/2019 formats to 2019
12/30/2019 formats to 2020
@unamccormack *Puts a certain book on top of the Christmas re-reading pile*
shahmiruk I HAVE JUST DISCOVERED SCAMPI FRIES AND I AM ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS. DEAR WHITE ENGLISH FRIENDS OF MINE, HOW DARE YOU NOT TELL ME THAT THIS SHIT EXISTS. IT IS FREAKING MAGICAL.