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That makes it weird though, because 1900 was a leap year? I sort of get it, but it's a slightly odd and inconsistent decision. Edit: no it's not, it's absolutely correct, leap years just aren't as simple as I thought!
1900 was not a leap year... It's 0 mod 4, yes, but it's 0 mod 100 and not 0 mod 400
Heard from a friend in China: the age calculation portion of the app to schedule a marriage certificate had a bug where they subtracted 22 (legal minimum age) from the year, which resulted in 2002-02-29 which doesn't exist. The app intends to compare this against the user's birth date. The error handling code assumes all errors are from the comparison. The app then rejected all marriage certificate appointments by co…
How do leap day birthdays get handled in general? How is the right age iterated every year?
We have a product that uses ChatGPT via the API, using the 3.5 turbo version. Our query involves some dates. Instead of giving back text like it usually does, today it has been giving errors because it does not think 2024-02-29 is a valid date. This is easy to reproduce with the web interface, at least sometimes [0]. It start out by saying it's not a valid date and then as it's explaining why it isn't it realizes its…
Wired: LLM are practically AGI Tired: ChatGPT thinks February 29th isn't a valid date.
Unless you're in your 70's, YouTube doesn't allow you to buy premium if you were born on a leap year, because their age calculation is broken, and it thinks you're under 18. Google One works fine. Support will suggest that you change the birthday on your Google account, which breaks account recovery processes that depend on you furnishing matching identity documentation. Mind-boggling. Because nobody at YouTube has a…
Our ETL process is heavily monitored so we never miss a days data, but we got a surprising error "cant build aggregates - missing data, aborting MV refresh, data will be a day old". It was the year to date (YTD) calculation - no data for 29/2/2023 to compare to today.
This is why -365 days can be better than -1y.
Yes, I have a bot that posts daily San Francisco weather records to Mastodon. It did not post as scheduled today. This is because I am looking at all the high temperatures, low temperatures, and precipitation on today's date from 1875 (about as far back as there are digitized weather records I can work with) to the present. Since there was no such date as February 29, 1875 it is throwing an error.
sorry, this has nothing to do with you, just a pet peeve.
Unless you're in your 70's, YouTube doesn't allow you to buy premium if you were born on a leap year, because their age calculation is broken, and it thinks you're under 18. Google One works fine. Support will suggest that you change the birthday on your Google account, which breaks account recovery processes that depend on you furnishing matching identity documentation. Mind-boggling. Because nobody at YouTube has a…
Our credit card invoice system shifted all invoices that were due 28th to the 29th of February. Still trying to figure out what happened.
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I'm sure it's more complicated than "we didn't think about leap years", but it certainly sounds pretty amateurish. Old programmer rant: In my day, we fixed the Y2K bug - we went to the future and back several times a day!
In your day people weren't doing everything with string ops in JavaScript.