boss: your mission, should you choose to accept it,

super hacker: this better be good

boss: is to write a program that takes in valid DD/MM/YYYY dates and outputs milliseconds since epoch,

super hacker: below my pay grade old man

boss: in brainfuck

super hacker: Now We're Talking

@typhlosion boss: also make sure it uses the correct timezone

hacker: …

@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 :-(

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