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Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:00 this Thursday (GMT):
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> Prepare for the stupidest complaint I've yet made!
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> Look on any digital video-game storefront -Steam, GOG, UPlay,
> whatever- and you'll find all sorts of information about the games.
> What the title is, what genre it falls under, who developed it, who
> published it; why, you might even find user reviews if the store-front
> is any good! And one of those pieces of information you usually find
> is the release date. Not the most important bit of data, no, but it's
> usually there. And because it's a very objective fact, it's the same
> on all the store fronts. It's the game the day is released, after all.
> How can it vary?
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> Ask GOG. Because _every_ game I've gotten from them, the release date
> has always been one day earlier than everywhere else. Get a game from
> Steam, Epic, EAOrigin, and it says "release date: Oct 29 2002". Get
> the same game from GOG and the release date is "Oct 28 2002". And this
> discrepancy is driving me mad!
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> Yes, it's stupid. But I want consistency in my data! Especially since
> I upload all my games into a central database, and GOG's proclivity is
> messing things up! I have the same game released on two different
> days! It's a paradox! My brain explodes! Do you know how hard it is to
> get exploded brain out of carpeting?
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> (In fact, I suspect this is purposeful; if you use GOG's own launcher,
> or a third-party app like Playnite that combines multiple game
> libraries into one mammoth list, GOG's games will always show up first
> if you sort by release date.)
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> And sure, one day really isn't that bad. Arguably, it's even
> permissible; if a game is released officially at 12:00 AM is the date
> Dec 31 or Jan 1st? Who's to say? But it annoys me, especially since it
> seems an intended tactic by GOG, and not just a misunderstanding or
> accident. Stop trying to rewrite history, GOG! Just use the same date
> as everyone else!
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> Thus ends the most idiotic rant I've ever written* ;-)
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That's..really weird? My only guess is that they input the date as a
unix timestamp at midnight of that day, then your timezone shifts it
enough to end up on the previous day.

Datetime is currrssseeddd!!
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-03 12:00 -0400
  Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-03 16:20 +0000
    Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-10-11 11:10 +0200
  Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> - 2024-10-07 19:26 -0700
    Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-08 21:47 -0400
      Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-10-09 08:02 -0700
        Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-09 16:20 -0400
          Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-10-09 18:06 -0700
        Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-10-11 11:11 +0200
      Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-09 18:20 +0000

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