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sunshine@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 18 hours ago

I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pink

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I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pink

sunshine@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 18 hours ago
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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 hours ago

    The python version seems buggy as fuck. Depending on which year you run it it’s off by 1-3 days

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      4 hours ago

      Python does have a year option that they are not using. Depending on the application I would use 365 for a year to get a consistent number of days.

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      7 hours ago

      That sounds serious, can you give some example values we can test?

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        Sure, here’s one example for each case:

        1 day off: 3650 days before 1907-01-01 is 1897-01-02

        2 days off: 3650 days before 2027-01-01 is 2017-01-03

        3 days off: 3650 days before 2025-01-01 is 2015-01-04

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        5 hours ago

        29 February 2028, 29 February 2032, 29 February 2036…

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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        6 hours ago

        look I’m not trying to be a dick or anything, but do you not know about leap years and which years they are?

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          Yes, and I have no idea…

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            Leap years are each fourth year, except each hundredth year, except each thousandth year.

            1896 leap year
            1900 not leap year
            1904 leap year
            …
            1996 leap year
            2000 leap year
            2004 leap year
            …
            2096 leap year
            2100 not leap year
            2104 leap year

            Then you just arrange the 10 year window in different positions to overlap 1 to 3 leap years to reveal the three outcomes of the bug.

            - / - - - / - - - /
            - - / - - - / - - -
            - - 0 - - - / - - -

            - is a normal year, / is a leap year, 0 is an exceptional non-leap year.

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