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Re:New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors by divan on Sunday December 11, 2022 @09:22AM (#33943446)
> Your assertions do not make that a reality

What reality? I write Go almost daily for 9 years and was running Golang meetups in two countries for years. I think I have pretty good grasp of what actual problem real people have with dates in Go. Order of day-month in mnemonic ("Jan 2nd" vs "Feb 1st") is literally not a problem. This problem exists only in HN comments of people used to other approaches.

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Re:New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors by fsociety on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:13AM (#33944415)
That’s cool. I constantly get tripped up with day/month ordering. Maybe I am dumb, but it is a silly design to defend in my opinion.
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Re:New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors by divan on Sunday December 11, 2022 @03:59PM (#33947432)
Can you elaborate in details how exactly you tripped by this?

Like, when you need to present current date so it looks like "11 December, 2022" - where your issue starts with Go's approach? Can you walk me through your thought process here? I'm genuinly curious.

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Re:New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors by fcarraldo on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:55AM (#33944871)
> Order of day-month in mnemonic ("Jan 2nd" vs "Feb 1st") is literally not a problem

I mean, you literally got it wrong in this comment, so maybe it’s worth considering whether such a simple mistake might be hard to catch and thus cause real production issues?

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Re:New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors by Smaug123 on Sunday December 11, 2022 @01:25PM (#33945824)
(The GP was using the US convention to refer to the two dates 01/02 and 02/01, not trying to use two conventions to refer to a different date each.)
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Re:New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors by fcarraldo on Sunday December 11, 2022 @01:28PM (#33945848)
Ah, I see. Apologies to GP, but I believe the point is still reinforced - the biggest enemy of an engineer when it comes to dates is ambiguity.
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