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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? by hinkley on Thursday February 29, 2024 @04:04PM (#39555068)
But then it'll be off by one day for the rest of this year. And someone will notice that they no longer have March 1 2023-March 1 2024 in their chart, but March 2 2023
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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? by kccqzy on Thursday February 29, 2024 @05:50PM (#39556284)
It's a cleanup script. I bet nobody cares it's off by one day. Also I doubt a cleanup script has a charting function.

Everything is use case dependent. Sometimes the use case is unimportant enough that mistakes are okay.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? by hinkley on Thursday February 29, 2024 @06:13PM (#39556454)
While that's true, I'm sharing scar tissue here not hypotheticals.

There's often someone out there who interprets such things as a 3 month, or 1 year retention policy and that it means they're entitled to look at the entire range whenever they want.

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