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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish40•9 months agoSomeone wrote their own date library.
minus-square@stolylinkEnglish5•9 months agoI was thinking to myself that this system MUST be less than 4 years old or it would have happened last February 29.
minus-squareelmichalinkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoI hit a similar bug today where I had used SYSDATE - NUMTOYMINTERVAL(2, 'year') in Oracle. I don’t remember why I didn’t use sysdate - 2*365 instead, which works without problems for my use case (I don’t care about one day more or less). But I would have appreciated if the compiler or the IDE would have yelled at me.
Someone wrote their own date library.
Never write your own date library
I was thinking to myself that this system MUST be less than 4 years old or it would have happened last February 29.
I hit a similar bug today where I had used
in Oracle. I don’t remember why I didn’t use
sysdate - 2*365instead, which works without problems for my use case (I don’t care about one day more or less). But I would have appreciated if the compiler or the IDE would have yelled at me.classic!