It should have an option to add an event to your calendar.
Can we speed them up? I’m not sure we’re going to last that long.
How did you get a screenshot 2 days in the future? When I click on it mine is 249 days, 20hours, 16minutes…
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
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.
the developer overlooking edge cases.
I take every opportunity to share my favorite Computerphile episode: The Problem with Time & Timezones.
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.
That reminds me I need to buy some land in bozeman montana.
249d 19h for me
I don’t think they know how to code a timer
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.
I am so used to the internet being cynical that I forgot people can be nice