Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by adrianN on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:53PM
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Maybe we should think about building software in a way that only adds stuff that is truly necessary.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by swsieber on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:10PM
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I have. I don't like it. I'd rather have the ability to debug, redundant checks, etc. than only what's truly necessary.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by notatoad on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:19PM
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if this bug was caused by a lack of a datestamp instead of the inclusion of one, you'd be here leaving comments about how silly it was they didn't include something as standard and widely useful as a datestamp, and that of course that was necessary.
this seems like a post-rationalization. when an app generates a file to send to another service, it's usually a good practice to timestamp that. unless you're severely bandwidth-constrained, putting a timestamp in your protocol almost always solves more problems than it creates. "we shouldn't include a timestamp because it might at some point trigger a date-math bug" is just not how software gets built.
the fact that the software can still print without including a timestamp doesn't mean it's not worth including.