news.digitalmars.com server has a wrong date
Jonathan M Davis
jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Thu Oct 11 17:27:42 PDT 2012
On Friday, October 12, 2012 02:04:33 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 10/12/12, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/11/12, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> >> I've seen several messages from the future in the web front end:
> > It's an "optimization" :P
> >
> > https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/dd12d4e23510ec13ef194b3cf858eb12
> > cfb4cf5f/web.d#L1831
> Ah no I'm wrong, I thought it said duration < dur!"seconds"(1). Quite
> curious how duration can end up being less than 0.
Easy. It's negative. For instance, if you subtract now from tomorrow, the
result would be negative. So, if the code is subtracting the current time from
some other time, and the result is negative, then the other time is in the
future as that line indicates.
- Jonathan M Davis
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