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It should have an option to add an event to your calendar.

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Can we speed them up? I’m not sure we’re going to last that long.

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How did you get a screenshot 2 days in the future? When I click on it mine is 249 days, 20hours, 16minutes…

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temporal displacement obviously

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There is a temporal cold war currently so it checks out

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It appears to be using JavaScript to count down, and JavaScript uses a browser’s local time by default rather than something sensible like UTC. Someone else has noticed it in the Mastodon thread: https://aus.social/@USSJoshuaNorton@trekkies.social/111656784005786289

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I mean wouldn’t any sensible developer just use one of the many npm packages that do count down from UTC?

Which would also be using JavaScript?

Sorry I don’t mean to quibble it’s just that imo JavaScript has nothing to do with this faulty countdown, it has to do with the developer overlooking edge cases.

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the developer overlooking edge cases.

I take every opportunity to share my favorite Computerphile episode: The Problem with Time & Timezones.

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Wouldn’t those also reflect an error in the local system clock if it was not set correctly?

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So because they messed up, they’re not a sensible developer? Jeez…I sure wouldn’t like to work with you.

Mistakes are part of life, especially when your job is solving problems, and thus you can be both a sensible developer and still make mistakes.

If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.

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Maybe they coded it from the day Cisco and Bashir arrived in 2024, not the actual date I’d the riots.

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That reminds me I need to buy some land in bozeman montana.

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249d 19h for me

I don’t think they know how to code a timer

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probably just didn’t take into account time zones so it’s different based on the offset (likely to UTC)

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There was a timezone issue with their code. Mastodon, in the mastodon way, found a way to contact the site owner and they got everything fixed. People can be great, when given the chance.

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I am so used to the internet being cynical that I forgot people can be nice

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Same here. I reread the message chain several times before it sunk in that they were being kind and not dickish haha

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