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minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoMost developers don’t write their own date handling code; they instead use code that someone else already wrote. Good programming languages have useful date and time libraries.
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoRight, but the original person who wrote the code everyone uses still had to program it in.
minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoTrue, but the common libraries for date/time handling are widely used and heavily tested.
Most developers don’t write their own date handling code; they instead use code that someone else already wrote. Good programming languages have useful date and time libraries.
Right, but the original person who wrote the code everyone uses still had to program it in.
No such thing
True, but the common libraries for date/time handling are widely used and heavily tested.