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But, you totally can? When you store all your dates as an ISO 8601 string (UTC, so with Z at the end), you can simply compare the strings themselves with no further complications, if the strings match, the dates match, if one string is less than the other, the date therein is before the other. Their lexical order is equal to their chronological order

I agree that it’s a massive and unnecessary overhead that you should definitely avoid if possible, but for anything where this overhead is negligible it’s a very viable and safe way of storing date and time

edit: I forgot, there’s also a format that’s output by functions like toUTCstring that’s totally different and doesn’t have any logical order, but I honestly forgot about that format because nobody in their right mind would use it

If only there was a summary of said article right here in the comment section, not even a click away

why not? assuming you’re saving them all in UTC they should be perfectly sortable and comparable (before, equal, after) as strings, even with varying amounts of precision when you compare substrings. You can’t really do math with them of course, but that’s what I meant about how DBs interpret dates and time: if you use it do to math and then you also use your application’s date library to do math, you’ll likely run into situations where the two come to different answers due to timezone settings, environments, DB drivers and the like. Of course if I could rely on the DB to do the math exactly the way I’d expect it to, then having that ability is awesome, however that requires more knowledge about databases and their environments than I currently have

Personally, I would probably just store them as text, because I’m objectively a terrible programmer.

I don’t know man, I’d far prefer storing a string and have whatever date library I’m using figure it out than have to deal with whatever the database thinks about dates and timestamps

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yeah well HP, fuck you too

well they don’t make everything in gaza, true: https://www.memri.org/tv/jazeera-documentary-hamas-missile-industry-iran-sends-kornet-fajr-missiles-to-gaza-reclaims-munitions

well perhaps they should’ve thought about that before digging up the water pipes provided by international humanitarian aid organizations to make into rockets. If Palestinians want to blame anyone for lack of water, they should start with hamas

btw, hamas made a video bragging about this

edit: according to their own propaganda, these were pipes left behind by Israel “to steal gaza water”, not pipes delivered as aid: https://www.memri.org/tv/jazeera-documentary-hamas-missile-industry-iran-sends-kornet-fajr-missiles-to-gaza-reclaims-munitions

If they’re willing to be reasonable

they’ve shown time and time again, through actions and words, that they are not

you keep doing you, we love you

it’s very useful to follow subject matter experts, when you’ve identified them

yep, sure did: https://old.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/5uw5cs

oh it would for simple graphics like graphs/charts, but it’d be worse than useless for everything else like pictures / photos / video. That’s why I mentioned Overwatch as the example, which was the most egregious offender of this. If you turned on the colorblind mode in that game back when it was first introduced, it just chroma hue shifted all colors making it look like this:

how anyone with a functioning eye and brain ever thought that was the solution is beyond me

best they can do for those, is to offer such filters

well I’m sure some people will find it useful, but in my experience global filters make a global mess of everything without doing much of anything to alleviate the problem. Lucky for people like me, many games already have better options, and in other applications it usually isn’t much of a problem

yeah those ones, they completely mess up all colors and still don’t help

if this changes all colors with a global filter the way that some games like Overwatch (used to) do, then it’s really not going to help anyone. I’m red-green colorblind, so when something is highlighted in red it isn’t as obvious to me as it is to people with normal vision. However, the fix isn’t too globally mess with all the colors, the fix is to let me pick the highlight color so that I can choose what works best for me. Many games have figured this out long ago (thank you game devs!).

as a neighbor of russia, how could you trust a single word a russian says?

thank you for posting this and baiting a few more tankies into outing themselves, I do so like adding them to my block list

yes, Ukrainians totally marched into Ukraine and started shooting Ukrainians