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It was the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month...

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  • P Pete OHanlon

    Methinks me just threwed up a little bit.

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    Fernando A Gomez F
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    Second bug in a row... today I wrote "escribido" rather than "escrito" on a SLA proposal... I really need to get some sleep... :sigh:

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    • F Fernando A Gomez F

      So here's the code for an appointment management WebPart a previous programmer did:

      DateTime primer = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, 1);
      DateTime ultimo = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month + 1, 1);

      So obviously the thingy stopped working exactly today, as Schmarz is not yet recognized as a month... Sigh. :sigh:

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      TorstenFrings
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      the real WTF is, that this may fail in the very rare case, when the year switches between the evaluation of DateTime.Today.Year and DateTime.Today.Month, leading to a primer one year back in the past... but this may not be an issue if the code will not be executed during new years eve ;)

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      • F Fernando A Gomez F

        So here's the code for an appointment management WebPart a previous programmer did:

        DateTime primer = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, 1);
        DateTime ultimo = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month + 1, 1);

        So obviously the thingy stopped working exactly today, as Schmarz is not yet recognized as a month... Sigh. :sigh:

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        ii_noname_ii
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        LOL. *points and laughs loudly at incompetance* No excuses for this one.

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        • F Fernando A Gomez F

          So here's the code for an appointment management WebPart a previous programmer did:

          DateTime primer = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, 1);
          DateTime ultimo = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month + 1, 1);

          So obviously the thingy stopped working exactly today, as Schmarz is not yet recognized as a month... Sigh. :sigh:

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          Lost User
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          You need to convince your employer that their calendars are wrong. Admitting mistakes in code cannot end well.

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          • L Lost User

            You need to convince your employer that their calendars are wrong. Admitting mistakes in code cannot end well.

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            Fernando A Gomez F
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            Hehehe, actually, aside from me being called at 4 A.M., it turned out pretty well for us: the other software company got their asses kicked off of the project, and we already got another project with this customer... So, all in all, it worked for us!

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            • P PaulLinton

              Yes, it is bad but understandable. The equivalent of that code works just fine in Excel, for example. Try "=Date(2011,Month(Today())+1,1)" and you get 1/1/2012 which seems sensible to me. It's a coding style I have used for years. No excuses, I'm just saying.

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              Jasmine2501
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              I don't think it's "understandable" when an ASP.Net programmer makes a mistake like this. Presumably they weren't hired for their Excel skills?

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              • F Fernando A Gomez F

                So here's the code for an appointment management WebPart a previous programmer did:

                DateTime primer = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, 1);
                DateTime ultimo = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month + 1, 1);

                So obviously the thingy stopped working exactly today, as Schmarz is not yet recognized as a month... Sigh. :sigh:

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                ekolis
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                Maybe he got the calendar mixed up with the zodiac... when exactly is the sign of Ophiucus again? :) (OH GOD now I have "we are now in the age of aquarius... aquarius... AQUAAAARIUS" stuck in my head...)

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                • F Fernando A Gomez F

                  So here's the code for an appointment management WebPart a previous programmer did:

                  DateTime primer = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, 1);
                  DateTime ultimo = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month + 1, 1);

                  So obviously the thingy stopped working exactly today, as Schmarz is not yet recognized as a month... Sigh. :sigh:

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                  James Lonero
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                  The coding horror is when you see the same Code Project Discussion two days in a row. That's horrible.

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                  • P Paladin2000

                    DateTime ultimo = primer.AddMonths(1);

                    ftfy.

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                    KP Lee
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                    Why give "useful" info to someone who obviously doesn't need it? (Someone slammed by someone else's non-thinking moment, not, "What did I do wrong?".)

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                    • F Fernando A Gomez F

                      So here's the code for an appointment management WebPart a previous programmer did:

                      DateTime primer = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, 1);
                      DateTime ultimo = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month + 1, 1);

                      So obviously the thingy stopped working exactly today, as Schmarz is not yet recognized as a month... Sigh. :sigh:

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                      Gary R Wheeler
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                      Reminds me of a project I worked on in 1992. I was controlling a piece of hardware which had its own real-time clock. We discovered that it did not handle the rollover for leap year correctly, so we reported a bug to the developer for the firmware on the device. He 'solved' the problem by disallowing setting the date to the month of February :rolleyes:.

                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                      • G Gary R Wheeler

                        Reminds me of a project I worked on in 1992. I was controlling a piece of hardware which had its own real-time clock. We discovered that it did not handle the rollover for leap year correctly, so we reported a bug to the developer for the firmware on the device. He 'solved' the problem by disallowing setting the date to the month of February :rolleyes:.

                        Software Zen: delete this;

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                        Albert Holguin
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                        I can see him now... "FIXED!"

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                        • F Fernando A Gomez F

                          Hehehe, actually, aside from me being called at 4 A.M., it turned out pretty well for us: the other software company got their asses kicked off of the project, and we already got another project with this customer... So, all in all, it worked for us!

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                          prasun r
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                          well IT industry is funny ;)

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                          • F Fernando A Gomez F

                            So here's the code for an appointment management WebPart a previous programmer did:

                            DateTime primer = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, 1);
                            DateTime ultimo = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month + 1, 1);

                            So obviously the thingy stopped working exactly today, as Schmarz is not yet recognized as a month... Sigh. :sigh:

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                            krumia
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                            Quote:

                            It was the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month...

                            Nice subject! :-D

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