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alagappanr
on Sept 13, 2013
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Happy Programmers' Day
New Year's Day would still be Day 1.
educating
on Sept 13, 2013
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Yes, that's point. 0 and 1. No day 0, so make it day 1.
pyre
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You're just taunting us that the year isn't zero-indexed! You could at least have the decency to hide it from us like Oracle[1].
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http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/substr.php
mistercow
on Sept 13, 2013
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Wow, that was upsetting to read.
pyre
on Sept 13, 2013
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The best part is that they have to keep it to maintain backwards compatibility!
mistercow
on Sept 13, 2013
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That's when you bring down the deprecation hammer and create a new function with a different name and sane behavior. No need to actually remove the functionality at any point, but at least they could get code bases to phase it out.
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