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Re:1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for ove... by bee_rider on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:30PM (#36699502)
> Lexical sort ordering without parsing the date string is a great property.

Why? Why is the date even a string in the first place? It ought to be internally represented as 3 numbers. Or a Unix timestamp. Convert it to months, days, and/or years as appropriate right before printing.

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Re:1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for ove... by kiicia on Thursday July 13, 2023 @02:44AM (#36705761)
Never use unix time stamp as date. You don’t know time zone, you need to calculate leap years (both days and seconds), summer time etc such a “date” would immediately morph into useless random number
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