Collection of Lame Jokes

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[WWGD]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[WWGD]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Ibix]

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Twist: she dumps him because he's incompatible with her ISO-8601 preference.

 

[fresh_42]

Twist: she dumps him because he's incompatible with her ISO-8601 preference.

Even ISO-8601 is stupid. The only reasonable format is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS with $0\leq HH \leq 23.$
No reason for any minuses.

 

[DaveC426913]

Even ISO-8601 is stupid. The only reasonable format is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS with $0\leq HH \leq 23.$
No reason for any minuses.

Indeed. The only unambiguous format.
Also, mostly presaged by Star Trek.

 

[Ibix]

No reason for any minuses.

It makes them more readable to most humans.

 

[berkeman]

Even ISO-8601 is stupid. The only reasonable format is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS with $0\leq HH \leq 23.$
No reason for any minuses.

Needs to also include Daylight Savings Time status. Otherwise, there are ambiguous entries every Fall (when our clocks "Fall Back" an hour).

 

[fresh_42]

Needs to also include Daylight Savings Time status. Otherwise, there are ambiguous entries every Fall (when our clocks "Fall Back" an hour).

GMT.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[DaveC426913]

Needs to also include Daylight Savings Time status.

Need to eliminate Daylight Savings forever. Problem solved.

 

[WWGD]

Need to eliminate Daylight Savings forever. Problem solved.

I've heard of more radical proposals that time zones themselves be eliminated. Not sure how well that would work.

 

[fresh_42]

I've heard of more radical proposals that time zones themselves be eliminated. Not sure how well that would work.

It works in the airline industry.

 

[gmax137]

It works in the airline industry.

And in China

 

[fresh_42]

It makes them more readable to most humans.

Frontend problem.

 

[WWGD]

And in China

Though the majority of its population lives in the East Coast. That may have to see with it.

 

[WWGD]

 

[WWGD]

It works in the airline industry.

Good, so it is employed.

 

[berkeman]

Need to eliminate Daylight Savings forever. Problem solved.

So do we permantly spring forward, or forever fall backward? Inquiring minds want to know.

(BTW, I agree it would be best to not keep changing back and forth, but I don't know which of the two choices is best...)

 

[WWGD]

So do we permantly spring forward, or forever fall backward? Inquiring minds want to know.

(BTW, I agree it would be best to not keep changing back and forth, but I don't know which of the two choices is best...)

Spring Forward first Winter day. Until First Spring day. Problem solved.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I've heard of more radical proposals that time zones themselves be eliminated. Not sure how well that would work.

Philosophers. Pfffft!

or possibly hippies.

 

[WWGD]

Philosophers. Pfffft!

Or, as DuMaurier (Fake Philosopher name) put it in his 1721 treatise: " Don't Need no Stinkin Philosophy).

BTW, Philosophy was originally a treatise on people with first name 'Phil'.

 

[jack action]

I've heard of more radical proposals that time zones themselves be eliminated. Not sure how well that would work.

Then I vote for Epoch time.

 

[WWGD]

Then I vote for Epoch time.

Same as Sidereal time?

 

[jack action]

Same as Sidereal time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

 

[WWGD]

 

[strangerep]

Even ISO-8601 is stupid. The only reasonable format is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS with $0\leq HH \leq 23.$

What about 12,000 years from now? Not very future proof.

Oh, wait... Humanity is almost certain to have destroyed itself long before then.

 

[WWGD]

 

[fresh_42]

What about 12,000 years from now? Not very future proof.

You mean they will still have COBOL programs running?

Oh, wait... Humanity is almost certain to have destroyed itself long before then.

Another Carrington event will do.

 

[DrClaude]

So do we permantly spring forward, or forever fall backward? Inquiring minds want to know.

(BTW, I agree it would be best to not keep changing back and forth, but I don't know which of the two choices is best...)

Noon should correspond as closely as possible to the Sun being at its zenith.

 

[WWGD]

You mean they will still have COBOL programs running?

Another Carrington event will do.

I don't see why become concerned over something that will happen long after we're all dead.

 

[fresh_42]

I don't see why become concern over sonething that will happen long after we're all dead.

Carrington is overdue, so I wouldn't bet.

 

[WWGD]

Carrington is overdue, so I wouldn't bet.

Never met him.

 

[WWGD]

 

[fresh_42]

Never met him.

I know. You are online.

 

[WWGD]

I know. You are online.

And S/he's not? Still no idea on Carrington.

 

[WWGD]

 

[DaveC426913]

I don't see why become concerned over something that will happen long after we're all dead.

That's what all we programmers were saying leading up to 2000.

 

[gmax137]

That's what all we programmers were saying leading up to 2000.

My brother had summer jobs in the mid 1970s doing programming. Around 1999 he told me that he had been including in 4-digit years in his programs back then, and the 'greybeard' programmers he reported to called him an a**hole college kid.

 

[WWGD]

My brother had summer jobs in the mid 1970s doing programming. Around 1999 he told me that he had been including in 4-digit years in his programs back then, and the 'greybeard' programmers he reported to called him an a**hole college kid.

Maybe because they we're planning for Y10K? ;).

 

[WWGD]

 

[fresh_42]

My brother had summer jobs in the mid 1970s doing programming. Around 1999 he told me that he had been including in 4-digit years in his programs back then, and the 'greybeard' programmers he reported to called him an a**hole college kid.

Of course, they did. Do you have the slightest idea how much money was made by checking and changing those old programs?

 

[WWGD]

Of course, they did. Do you have the slightest idea how much money was made by checking and changing those old programs?

Carrington was clearly benefiting (??)

 

[Ibix]

Carrington was clearly benefiting (??)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

Given the amount of stuff that relies on wireless these days a rerun would not be funny.

 

[WWGD]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

Given the amount of stuff that relies on wireless these days a rerun would not be funny.

Thank you. A bad think about connectivity is that I have no real excuse for my laziness in looking it up ;). Edit: Using a phone makes it harder to search and come back. With a PC I can just open a new window. Ah, first world problems.

 

[WWGD]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I told a guy I'm a big fan of USB and he accused me of being against the USA.

 

[WWGD]

I told a guy I'm a big fan of USB and he accused me of being against the USA.

I think he attended USC.