Error’d: Beer and Peanuts

We got a lot of good submissions this week, including
some examples of test-in-prod we’re saving for a special
edition. Not too many of the usual NaN/Null/Undefined sort,
but we did also get a small rash of time failures.

But frist,
Henk
highlights the curious case of QNAP’s email
subscription management page (which appears to be outsourced).
“QNAP surely does not want to lose me!” he hoped.

 

And an anonymous Australian athlete announced
“To me, this is email marketing done wrong: sending
out mhtml files which can’t be rendered in an email
client like MS Outlook on Windows. It almost feels like
they don’t want their emails to be seen in an email
client. Or maybe they think the world revolves around
using Gmail or Outlook in the browser? (or maybe im just
old school & like my email client)” I’m betting they don’t
know the difference between applications and web sites.

 

Penny-pincher
Zac
found a limit to his fandom.
“I want to watch my favorite baseball
team, but I think it is slightly out of my budget.”

 

Hockey Fan
Bill T.
didn’t actually want to watch any of
that reality crap anyway, but sometimes an error is
so egregious you just have to rant about it.
“TNT has a different definition of when days start than
I do. 9PM Eastern? That’s not even midnight UTC, so they
can’t blame that one.” I’m stumped too.

 

Time Is An Illusion, alludes gold-hearted
Gordon F.
, probably.
“Yup – another time and date screwup. But how many errors
can be crammed into one timestamp? This programming forum
has discovered time travel, new relationships between
seconds, minutes, hours and days, and xm for when pm and
am aren’t enough.” Until next week. So long!

 

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