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Clock But We Saved Money By Having The New Junior Dev Implement Daylight Savings Time Support At The Last Minute
Programming Debugging Testing Frontend
8 days ago 133.1K views 0 shares
Clock But We Saved Money By Having The New Junior Dev Implement Daylight Savings Time Support At The Last Minute
OH. MY. GOD. This is what happens when management decides that handling time zones is just a "small feature" that can be assigned to someone who still thinks "debugging" means removing insects from their keyboard! 😱 The poor junior dev clearly had a complete meltdown and just threw in a "13" because WHAT EVEN IS TIME ANYMORE when you're trying to implement daylight savings at 11:59 PM the night before the deadline! That extra hour had to go SOMEWHERE, right?! The clock is basically screaming "help me, I've been coded by someone who thinks Unix timestamp is a fashion statement!" And this, friends, is why date/time libraries exist. Because otherwise you end up with abominations that make even seasoned developers wake up in cold sweats.

See You In Six Months
Testing Programming Debugging
7 months ago 130.3K views 0 shares
See You In Six Months
The eternal time bomb of software development strikes again! This poor developer just "fixed" the tests broken by Daylight Savings Time by subtracting an hour from the expected results. Meanwhile, his hippie colleague is horrified because the actual solution was converting everything to UTC and making the tests timezone-aware. This is the coding equivalent of putting duct tape on a leaking nuclear reactor. Sure, the tests pass today, but in six months when DST changes again? Complete meltdown. The developer will be long gone, leaving behind a legacy of technical debt and confused Stack Overflow questions.