Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@jonafato "No, no, no, you've got us all wrong. We're trying to store it as a string, but sometimes Excel automatically turns it into an integer if it starts with a 0."

@wrog Interesting, though I think the Gregorian calendar is Good Enough™ at this point, and changing calendars would do more harm than good.

We won't be out of sync with the solar year by a margin of one day for another 2900 years. By then I fully expect us to either be extinct or at a level of technology where the seasons on Earth are not that important. Even if they are, there are still tens of thousands of years before things other than "hmm, the equinoxes seem to be off by a day" start to become obvious.

Bugs like `dt.replace(year=dt.year + 1)`, code that works with ordinal day-of-year, etc.

Psst. Next year is a leap year. Depending on your deployment story, now (or 3 months ago😅) might be a good time to start looking into logic that won't handle leap years correctly.

@astrojuanlu Matrix is not great (literally nothing in this or the adjacent "SMS replacement" space is, in my opinion), but E2EE that is both secure and good UX is like... obscenely hard.

@astrojuanlu I mean, that's from E2E encryption, which I think Discord doesn't support at all? You can turn that off, and it's pretty easy to share keys between devices.

@rober Lol, "Our user experience is trash, but we also have a different trash UX that is complementary to the other one!"

I appreciate the helpful tip, but also I'm not sure I want to encourage the continued existence of Discord.

@drewtoynbee This may be of interest to you, @astrojuanlu

#matrix isn't *great*, but it's a darn sight better than this.

"Oh I need to communicate with someone on Discord quickly, guess I'll launch it. Oh, there's an update available, so Discord *prevents me from opening their appliaction*."

Reason #215 to avoid #discord.

@kazarnowicz Yes, but I had to look it up to verify that I had it right.

Note: This is one of the *exceedingly rare* occasions where I like something like this.

For the most part I find content about datetimes, DST and programming in general to be boring and uninteresting.

Heading home from #PyConUS, ready to relax and see my family again after 10 days in SLC.

To celebrate, here's some fiction relevant to my work that you might be interested in:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/

#PyConUS2023