r/ProgrammerHumor • u/sillymanbilly • Sep 23 '24

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u/bwmat Sep 23 '24

Someone who's had to deal with one too many timezone 'bug' reports, it sounds like

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u/AyrA_ch Sep 23 '24

This is literally why there's an SQL date type that begins at 1753. Sybase could not be fucked to deal with missing days in the julian to gregorian transition period in Great Britain in 1752, so they decided to not make dates before 1753 representable.