Deborah PickettI have a date arithmetic bug for you.
Oh god someone is going to explain to me why this isn’t a bug, aren’t they?
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Magnus Ahltorp
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Colin
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Paul McEwan
@PaulMcEwan Could be because we are in different time zones. Or it could be we’re using different clients which display “ago” time differently.
@futzle Could be. I'm always VPNed to Aotearoa so I'm slightly in the future.
thinkberg@PaulMcEwan @futzle Even then ...
Morten@PaulMcEwan @futzle Yeah but just one year from now it's going to be all fucked up again.
Bellycan
Ygor@ygor Yeah it’s fine now that the post has gone from 9.997 years old to 10.001 years old.
Borris
Simon Zerafa (Status: 
😊)The message age field really needs to be a float rather than an int. It probably should have been shown as 9.99995 years or similar 🙂
MBEverding@futzle Bug Not on tusky (also I'm in German CET time)
^[[200~Michael@futzle If temporal can't fix this it's DOA to me /s
Jordi (Tubal Hippy)It wouldn't be the Fediverse is there wasn't some fucking bug 🤣
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Ben Harris-Roxas
fluffy 💜@futzle I am constantly finding weird annoying things like that in the Python date humanizer that I use and it's so frustrating, especially when I explain why the behavior could be better and they go off and "fix" it in an even more baffling way
Programmers really are bad at understanding intuition vs. The Numbers
@fluffy Python has a Special way of processing time zones and datetimes which, coming from other languages, I find to be peculiar. Those born into Python can’t see it; indeed, there’s a 50% chance that a Python programmer will come into our mentions to tell me I misunderstand something that I really don’t.
@futzle Yeah. arrow fixes most of the problems with time in Python, but that's where I use the humanizer from and they do such baffling things with how they opt to round dates, and they overthink things like week boundaries when doing it. https://github.com/arrow-py/arrow/issues/1240 for example
@futzle like I wish programmers would think about what different things mean in a colloquial way and it's so baffling that they're not just, like, using humanistic ideas of what time intervals mean
@fluffy It feels to me that everyone is bad about this. This may be an opportune time to refer to the “every other day” “four times a week” hellthread. https://web.archive.org/web/20240131220003/https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751