Earlier today, I saw on Lemmy that comments made within the last hour since DST were now in the negatives since time had rolled back. If a database uses time like this for search operations, would that interfere with them? Could it corrupt the database?

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[–] 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This is poor Lemmy programming, has nothing do with DST. You’ll often see if you’re posting a comment it will say “in 3 seconds”, meaning in the future. It’s because of how the frontend calculates the relative time based on a db timestamp against the local clock of your computer… which are beginner programmer mistakes from the late 90’s.

Slightly off topic below.

The 2 blokes programming this are not very good and since they are now beginning to peddle violence inciting garbage they can stuff their monthly donation too.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Sorry, not in the loop. What violence peddling are you referring to?

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