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Schrödinger's date format (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by ElectricFire@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Forgive the photo, when I tried to screenshot, it changed to "this field cannot be left blank"

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[–] BennyInc@feddit.de 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Luckily I’m born on 07/07/2007 — finally my superpower comes into play.

[–] drbi@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you agent 777?

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jackpot, they call them.

[–] clb92@feddit.dk 1 points 11 months ago

Already a better origin story than many other superheroes or supervillains.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Oh. I'm 7/7/79. If I was two years earlier...

[–] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is why I don't get why the 9th of November is such a big deal.

[–] dukk@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you kidding? They opened the Berlin Wall!

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a trick, it's actually ISO 8601.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

!iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org .

[–] Still@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

ah the classic html date input matches your browser localization not whatever the dev was doing

[–] float@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

I think there's sauce on your screen.

[–] robdor@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just register on the day that matches the month.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

01.01.1970. Timestamp zero for the win.

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Error: Please enter your birthdate

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

the dev forgot that 0 !== undefined :D

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Differences in locale between developer and user. They didn't really need to give a date format if they use a input type of date.