Let's stop counting centuries

Re:Let's stop counting centuries by jrockway on Friday July 05, 2024 @05:06PM (#40886012)

I would also accept that the 1st century has one less year than future centuries. Everyone said Jan 1, 2000 was "the new millenium" and "the 21st century". It didn't bother anyone except Lua programmers, I'm pretty sure.

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Re:Let's stop counting centuries by tetris11 on Saturday July 06, 2024 @05:59AM (#40889345)

> It didn't bother anyone except Lua programmers, I'm pretty sure.

What's this reference to? Afaik, Lua uses `os.time` and `os.date` to manage time queries, which is then reliant on the OS and not Lua itself

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Re:Let's stop counting centuries by jrockway on Saturday July 06, 2024 @06:06AM (#40889383)

Array indexes start at 1 by default, instead of 0.

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