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Re:Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time by cbr on Monday June 18, 2012 @10:28PM (#4129936)
But that's a bug in Excel. "Non leap years will never contain a leap day" is true.
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Re:Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time by hc5 on Monday June 18, 2012 @11:45PM (#4130139)
It was a bug in Lotus 1-2-3 that was intentionally implemented into Excel, so technically it was a backwards-compatibility "feature". And some items from the original list aren't exactly "truths" as much as implementations or configurations, e.g.

> 19. The system clock will never be set to a time that is in the distant past or the far future.

> 20. Time has no beginning and no end.

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Re:Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time by NoahSussman on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @10:46PM (#4135389)
'items from the original list aren't exactly "truths" as much as implementations or configurations' QFT.
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Re:Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time by antidoh on Monday June 18, 2012 @11:45PM (#4130137)
For now.
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