this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025

874 points (99.0% liked)

Programmer Humor

27248 readers

872 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

anzo@programming.dev

Feyter@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

874

Days since last timezone issue (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

21 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The original post would be the result of subtracting the same date in two different time zones that are currently in different days. Whereas what you’re saying is basically just an under flow error.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

What I’m saying is just a level deeper for comp sci people. It’s the same thing, but expressed on a 32-bit unsigned integer.

Same result. Deeper joke.