this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
335 points (98.0% liked)

Programmer Humor

27412 readers
1192 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Feyter@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
pylapp@programming.dev
335
Clock but we saved money by having the new junior Dev implement daylight savings time support at the last minute (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago

I find it hard to believe that they wouldn't be using their existing tools for handling dates and times. Surely MS have reasonable time handling logic, right?

Excel thinks 1900 is a leap year and they won't fix it for legacy reasons

Maybe not.