A mistake I have been making recently

[Marc Clifton]

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

new DateTime(2014-05-01)

Isn't it annoying how stupid computer languages are? The meaning of what you're trying to do is perfectly clear, but no, the computer can't figure that out. Marc

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[OriginalGriff]

Don't! They'll modify VB so it does accept it... X|

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[Nicholas Marty]

It IS totally clear for the computer what he meant to do. Obviously he wants to create a datetime with 2008 Ticks :rolleyes:

[Lost User]

The alternative is worse.

[Super Lloyd]

Natural language processing! :-D

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[megaadam]

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[Tim Carmichael]

But, is the meaning clear? Does he want May 1, 2014 or January 5, 2014? Regionalization... arrgh! That's why I tend to write the phone as alphabetic and avoid the issue...

[Mattintosh]

ISO. International Standards Organization. Your regional customs are irrelevant. You will be assimilated. Also, year-month-day sorts easily.

[JimmyRopes]

You beat me to it. :-D

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[JimmyRopes]

mhanvelt wrote:

Also, only year-month-day sorts easily.

FTFY :-D

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[GuyThiebaut]

I take it you prefer duck typing? Whenever I have my duck typing my code I get these sorts of issues too :^)

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[ZurdoDev]

GuyThiebaut wrote:

Whenever I have my duck typing my code

The US has laws against that.

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[Dan Neely]

JimmyRopes wrote:

mhanvelt wrote:

Also, only year-numeric month-day sorts easily.

FTFY :-D

FTFFY :rolleyes:

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[JimmyRopes]

Good catch. :-D

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[Mycroft Holmes]

Marc Clifton wrote:

but no, the computer can't figure that out

Down that path like a nightmare, I work with a POS call Murex where the dealers can enter all sorts of crap 1.2m, .78k, 300k and the system interprets it. The problem comes when they supply the original values to downstream systems. PLEASE make the bastards conform to some data standards.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

If only there was a language where you could, say, surround the value with some delimiters, a number sign (#) perhaps... :suss:

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.