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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by burntsushi on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:04AM (#48307280)
That's... not terrible. Biff isn't exactly popular yet, so a name change isn't out of the question. Both of those names (and `biff`) are already taken on crates.io. Which is maybe not a huge problem. IDK. Naming is hard.
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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by Terretta on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:43AM (#48307552)
https://crates.io/search?q=bttf

// backronym bttf stands for biff time to format

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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by burntsushi on Thursday May 28, 2026 @08:03AM (#48307742)
I like this
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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by christoff12 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @09:55AM (#48309010)
also: back to the future
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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by nicce on Thursday May 28, 2026 @11:16AM (#48310164)
Intersting to notice that the name has been changed now when reading the post 12h late :-D
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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by bbkane on Thursday May 28, 2026 @11:13AM (#48310111)
Burntsushi to the future
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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by hnlmorg on Thursday May 28, 2026 @12:12PM (#48311020)
This is the fastest rebranding after a Show HN I think I’ve seen haha
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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by burntsushi on Thursday May 28, 2026 @11:17AM (#48310191)
You win the naming contest. The project has been renamed: https://github.com/BurntSushi/bttf/pull/14
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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by burntsushi on Thursday May 28, 2026 @11:19AM (#48310220)
@dang - Could you update the post title please to say "bttf" instead of "Biff"? Thank you!
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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by sphars on Thursday May 28, 2026 @12:45PM (#48311563)
I don't think @ tags have any effect on HN, you'll want to email the mods directly: [email protected]
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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by mehackernewsacc on Thursday May 28, 2026 @12:09PM (#48310972)
Naming is hard, sure, but doing some due diligence up front to see what's already being used isn't very difficult. Very neat tool.
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Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife by burntsushi on Thursday May 28, 2026 @12:56PM (#48311795)
I did. I always do. I just missed this one. Or if I saw it, it didn't register for me and felt like it was just an old archaic tool. Which... is probably still true, but I under-estimated its mindshare. Just an honest unknown unknown.
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