Comment by acdha
3 days ago
What’s really sad is that this was obvious in 1995. If they’d taken a slightly longer time back then, millions of developers would have avoided tripping over those unnecessary quirks.
3 days ago
What’s really sad is that this was obvious in 1995. If they’d taken a slightly longer time back then, millions of developers would have avoided tripping over those unnecessary quirks.
to be fair, a lot of lessons about date/time API came way after that year
Some, yes, but if you looked at what was common outside of C programs this was antiquated even then. A SQL developer didn’t have to apply offsets and had better primitives for date math.