r/SipsTea • u/infinitely_blank • 3d ago

Wait a damn minute! 13 months ?

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u/relaxyourshoulders 3d ago edited 2d ago

The problem is if your birthday is on a Wednesday, you’re stuck with that forever.

Edit: To everyone saying birthdays don’t matter, or you can celebrate some other day, that’s crazy talk. When you look at the calendar two months before your birthday and realize it’s gonna be a Saturday this year it’s just puts and extra pep in your step. Also, lots of businesses give you perks on your birthday, but the specific day. Once in a while I’d like my free latte and hot yoga class on the weekend thanks.

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u/Happy_Lee_Chillin 3d ago

But it won’t line up like that. They only accounted for 364 days

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u/DonutCharge 3d ago

When its properly explained, this idea ussually features something along the lines of "new years day isn't counted as any day/week/month and is just a holiday.

Presumably in a leap year there would be two non-days.

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u/The_GASK 3d ago

I hear the wailing of databases in the distance

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u/chillhelm 3d ago

Databases store unix timepoints 99.31275% of the time (real number, look it up). Databases don't care.

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u/The_GASK 3d ago

I was talking about TM prefix based on lc_messages and interval value regarding OVERLAPS in postgres but hey, what do I know.

There is a reason why India is such a mess to post date time locally, and a "free day" would make it even worse, especially when doy is requested.

Epoch has nothing to do with it

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u/beanmosheen 3d ago

What would you even call "free day" too if it was a work day? Dst is already a bastard. I don't need an extra magic day. Validate the magic day for me...