Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: convert dob into days Followup-To: poster Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 00:35:57 +0200 Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Lines: 62 Message-ID: <40438691.fMDQidcC6G@PointedEars.de> References: <3168351.R56niFO833@PointedEars.de> <3278626.MHq7AAxBmi@PointedEars.de> <1695443.taCxCBeP46@PointedEars.de> Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.227.197.178.dynamic.wless.zhbmb00p-cgnat.res.cust.swisscom.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: gwaiyur.mb-net.net 1495751759 13102 178.197.227.80 (25 May 2017 22:35:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@open-news-network.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 22:35:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.14.2 X-Face: %i>XG-yXR'\"2P/C_aO%~;2o~?g0pPKmbOw^=NT`tprDEf++D.m7"}HW6.#=U:?2GGctkL,f89@H46O$ASoW&?s}.k+&. On 05/25/2017 06:45 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Suppose the OP bought >> into that approach and concluded that this would mean that they would >> never have to do the rounding, someone in the country of Absurdistan[tm] >> where clocks are switched at noon (when people would have siesta anyway) >> would get the wrong value for their age in days if an odd number of DST >> switches would lie between the dates. > > If setting the time to noon could cause an error in Absurdistan[tm] > (proximity of DST change to default time), leaving the time set to > midnight could cause an error in any REAL place that does the DST > changes around midnight (some timezones in Europe do). You are missing the point. > Also, noon is actually correct. You're specifying a date only, noon > gives you the mean ("average") of that time period. Nonsense. > BTW, I'd choose to still do the rounding. This is NOT an attempt to make > the code shorter or faster, but more correct. You don’t say. >>>> Your From header field value is disregarding Netiquette. >>> >>> I haven't heard that one before. What about it to you consider >>> undesirable? >> Use of the “invalid” TLD by you is blocking the private e-mail feedback >> channel which is an important part of Usenet communication. > > When I started using usenet, I put my real email address there. I > changed it when that capability was so often abused. I'm not talking > about spam (it comes anyway), but about replies that belong in the > newsgroup. What a nonsense. The private feedback channel is there so that subjects can be discussed in private *because* they do NOT belong in the newsgroup. > I will provide an E-mail address if necessary. Not providing an e-mail address causes those replies either be posted to the newsgroup, where they are off-topic, or it is effectively telling people to shut up when they would like to tell you something that does not belong there. This is *anti-social* behavior by you. > Usually it is not. *PLONK* F'up2 poster -- PointedEars FAQ: | | Twitter: @PointedEars2 | Please do not cc me./Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.