The Weird and The Wonderful

   

The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

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Re: Microsoft, Javascript and not cutting corners englebart31-Mar-17 3:36 englebart 31-Mar-17 3:36  If you don't care about local time zone information, just send the absolute numeric time: Date.getTime(); https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getTime Worse case, you might have to apply some fixed adjustment if your server Date/Time code works off of a different time 0 value. Re: Microsoft, Javascript and not cutting corners Brady Kelly31-Mar-17 4:52 Brady Kelly 31-Mar-17 4:52  You should also be very much aware to never trust JavaScript mixed type string concatenation. Immanentize the Eschaton! Re: Microsoft, Javascript and not cutting corners Kirk 1038982131-Mar-17 4:52 Kirk 10389821 31-Mar-17 4:52  So, you GENERATED the URL. You used the complicated format of the date/time string given to you by default, and hard to test manually. As opposed to formatting the date in Javascript to be: YYYYMMDD_HHNNSS and simply parsing that on the other end? Try to make your code immutable to the version of windows, etc. Re: Microsoft, Javascript and not cutting corners DerekT-P31-Mar-17 11:02 DerekT-P 31-Mar-17 11:02  Yes, I said I was being lazy. Yes, I know I did it a foolish way. The ONLY point of my post in Weird and Wonderful was to highlight a weird and wonderful (and undocumented, it would seem) change in the Time Zone description by Microsoft from "Daylight Time" to "Summer Time" with Win8 (and, it would seem, back to "Daylight Time" in Win10). "This forum is purely for amusement" Re: Microsoft, Javascript and not cutting corners Kirk 1038982131-Mar-17 11:20 Kirk 10389821 31-Mar-17 11:20  I get the point of the post. But I want to make sure YOU and even OTHERS realize that the solution is to really work to insulate yourself from these things from the jump. In fact, I just "auto saved" a file in my program, and I forced the YYYYMMDD_HHNNSS format to the prefix, so it is sortable, and gives a clue as to when it was made, how old, etc. Re: Microsoft, Javascript and not cutting corners James Curran31-Mar-17 15:08 James Curran 31-Mar-17 15:08  Why are you screwing around with strings? In Javascript "Date.now()" returns the number of milliseconds since 1/1/1970 (GMT). Pass that number in the URL. On the server-side: new DateTime(1970,1,1) + new TimeSpan(now * 1000) Give you the date/time. Truth, James Re: Microsoft, Javascript and not cutting corners Herbie Mountjoy3-Apr-17 0:16 Herbie Mountjoy 3-Apr-17 0:16  Ah! Many happy memories of hair tearing and cat kicking. So many variables and none of them nice. My best suggestion is to convert all dates into standard strings using the inbuilt date formatting functions. Whatever you do, don't pass dates as date objects. You will regret it... We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go. Re: Microsoft, Javascript and not cutting corners EveryNameIsTakenEvenThisOne12-Apr-17 21:24 EveryNameIsTakenEvenThisOne 12-Apr-17 21:24  Quote: I have some Javascript code That's where I stopped, already more horror than I can take, can't risk reading the continuation. Be strong. Re: Microsoft, Javascript and not cutting corners DerekT-P15-Apr-17 9:43 DerekT-P 15-Apr-17 9:43  Ha ha! The issue was nothing to do with Javascript, rather Microsoft's random renaming of time zones. ISO 8601 sx200813-Apr-17 13:29 sx2008 13-Apr-17 13:29  There is a standard date/time format when interchanging information between different applications: ISO 8601 C# string data = "2017-04-14T01:27:00+02"; DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(data); The new Trump Two Dollar Bill James Lonero20-Mar-17 9:31 James Lonero 20-Mar-17 9:31  I received an email about a new Trump US two dollar bill. See: https://donaldcoins.co/gu7-inauguration-bill-3/?utm_source=1786&utm_medium=60&utm_term=63710191&utm_content=1050&utm_campaign=GU&aff_id=1786&camp_id=15569&clk_id=63710191&sub_id=60&contract_id=629 I can't wait for him to appear on a $3 (three dollar) bill. Re: The new Trump Two Dollar Bill Brisingr Aerowing20-Mar-17 12:24 Brisingr Aerowing 20-Mar-17 12:24  What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you??? Re: The new Trump Two Dollar Bill dlhale23-Mar-17 19:10 dlhale 23-Mar-17 19:10  I think this should be moved to the soapbox Re: The new Trump Two Dollar Bill WiganLatics24-Mar-17 2:29 WiganLatics 24-Mar-17 2:29  True but it has so little traction that who cares? Re: The new Trump Two Dollar Bill dlhale24-Mar-17 6:02 dlhale 24-Mar-17 6:02  I do. Those with integtity do. Re: The new Trump Two Dollar Bill WiganLatics24-Mar-17 7:07 WiganLatics 24-Mar-17 7:07  dlhale wrote: integtity I think you compromised the integrity of your sentence Re: The new Trump Two Dollar Bill dlhale24-Mar-17 8:05 dlhale 24-Mar-17 8:05  Typing on an IPad leaves much to be desired, and many typos. Re: The new Trump Two Dollar Bill kristopher.baker31-Mar-17 5:22 kristopher.baker 31-Mar-17 5:22  (...and your integrity, may I dare say?) Re: The new Trump Two Dollar Bill dlhale31-Mar-17 8:38 dlhale 31-Mar-17 8:38  A typo defines integrity for you, how sad. Re: The new Trump Two Dollar Bill Power Puff Boy27-Mar-17 4:30 Power Puff Boy 27-Mar-17 4:30  Funny that they're reduced from $49.95 to $19.95. I wail until they drop below $2 and then snag some. I'm gonna build a wall around my cubical and make Mexico pay for it! Re: The new Trump Two Dollar Bill JackPeacock31-Mar-17 2:40 JackPeacock 31-Mar-17 2:40  I wonder about the people who pay $20 for a $2 bill. They aren't that rare. Bill Clinton has already reserved the $3 bill. It was supposed to go to Hillary, but all did not go to plan.... Is it weird to want programming related desktop wallpapers? Siddharth R Barman19-Mar-17 7:14 Siddharth R Barman 19-Mar-17 7:14  At times I really want a simple desktop wallpaper which says something related to a programming language like maybe something out of Zen of Python. Here's a bunch of programming wallpapers I made using my very limited design skills Technology Wallpapers modified 19-Mar-17 13:38pm. Re: Is it weird to want programming related desktop wallpapers? PIEBALDconsult19-Mar-17 7:44 PIEBALDconsult 19-Mar-17 7:44  "Real" developers know that desktop wallpapers hog resources and slow down the system; so we don't use them. Re: Is it weird to want programming related desktop wallpapers? Slacker00720-Mar-17 4:28 Slacker007 20-Mar-17 4:28  Yeah, if you are using a computer made back in the 1700's! Pro tip - buy a new computer. Re: Is it weird to want programming related desktop wallpapers? Sander Rossel20-Mar-17 10:15 Sander Rossel 20-Mar-17 10:15  New computers hog resources as well, way more than those from 1970 did! Best, Sander arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript SQL Server for C# Developers Succinctly Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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