Post #2991949
2024-07-27 14:54 UTC
@skaverat@skaverat.net Most common implementations of time_t use a signed integer, so it's trivial to track last dates. So I would be surprised if anyone had issues, and would be curious to hear about this as well.
1969-12-31 23:59:59 UTC would be -1 which I can see being easily confused with an error but anything other than -1 is pretty clear.
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@pointlessone@status.pointless.one 2024-07-28 07:31
@h3mmy@tech.lgbt @skaverat@skaverat.net I guess the question refers to how some systems treat missing data as 0 and if this has any effect. There was a few stories about similar things. A guy got a license plate NULL and started getting tickets to random people from all over his state. Another person got harassed for stealing phones because tracking system put a pin on map at their house. Turns out the system didn’t have more precise data than a country so it put the pin at a geographic center of the USA which happens to coincide with that house. Also, Null Island. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island