You still can. Nowadays it shows you really mean it!
Madrigal
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Cake day: June 27th, 2023
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Then your only challenge will be converting to and from human-friendly formats and cleansing user input. Easy.
It’s what happens when James uses the good dining forks to unjam the cupboard door again.
Imagine thinking that’ll be the biggest date-related computing problem for a galactic society.
If you really want to make programmers despair, point out:
- massive variations in day, month and year lengths on different worlds.
- some worlds may not have “months” (no moons, or many moons).
- ambiguous definition of “year” for multi-star systems.
- days may be longer than years (hello Venus).
- communication latency across interstellar distances.
- tine dilation.
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