@albino @typhlosion i had to make a change to a persistent data syncing framework once that relied on a database in Scoresbysund, Greenland time which follows European Daylight Savings Time which is different from the US DST

that shit is not fun

@vahnj that sounds awful… my condolences

It would be nice if the EU decided to collectively abolish DST but I'm not sure they'd ever do that :-(

@boots unix epoch is what i had in mind but you do you

@typhlosion i'm going to use unix epoch just because uh
befunge-98 has an extension that uses julian date so

@typhlosion okay so i was working on this but for some reason befunge98 thinks 17368 days plus 1970/1/1 is 24/5/17373 which is
very wrong

@boots is it that befunge thinks it, or that your algorithm thinks it

@typhlosion im pretty sure it's either befunge being bad or the befunge's docs being bad

@boots wait, are you using some kind of date fingerprint or are you doing the logic yourself

also what interpreter are you using

@typhlosion im using the date fingerprint in cfunge
first output is the stack before A
second output is the stack after A
https://computerfairi.es/media/LnBnofP_O4wZ3r0Des0

@typhlosion im not seeing what's going wrong here because according to docs it should give 1970 1 6
http://rcfunge98.com/rcsfingers.html#DATE
https://computerfairi.es/media/T7V5b3NvYU-6Du7t0Yg

@typhlosion the weirdest part is mycology passes so i dont see whats wrong with my implementation specifically
here's my code
https://ghostbin.com/paste/b5kes
change <<> to <>> for stack before A

@boots i'll poke at this when i get home from work in a few hours; i admit the only fingerprint i've ever used was TURT so i don't know much about DATE

@boots at a glance: this code looks like you're putting the operands in the wrong order (days d m y TOP, rather than y m d days TOP)

@typhlosion UGHHH I THOUGHT I TRIED THAT
thanks

@boots it says on the page (Notes section under the ToC) that arguments and outputs are listed left-to-right from bottom to top, but it's easy to miss if you go from ToC straight to the thing you wanted to look for

@typhlosion alright i finished and then realized i did the exact reverse of the actual program intended but uhh https://ghostbin.com/paste/qtrpg

@boots why 2k. rather than just ..

@typhlosion because i was using 4k. before and i didnt want to bother with adding and removing spaces

@boots i guess that's fair, albeit still ridiculous

@typhlosion id say its pretty good for my first program in befunge-98 /shrug

@boots it's not bad! befunge is a really fun language to mess around with

have you seen the IRC bot written in it?

@typhlosion yeah!

did not get it working, but
yeah

@boots i use CCBI; i have no idea about cfunge or whether its implementations of the fingerprints are any good

i can, however, confirm with great certainty that fingerprints are woefully underdocumented

@typhlosion and i guess base conversation into something where you have to worry about knowing where your zeroes are less, but i've done that in bf before, it's doable