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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your comment made me go look at the source for moment.js. It has "leap" 13 times and the code looks correct. I assume they test stuff like this.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm generally using the common data/time libraries in most (if not all) languages and I'm pretty sure they've all been through more than 1 leap year at this point. I just never 100% trust the code I don't control - 99.9% maybe, but never 100.

[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I just never 100% trust the code I don't control

I never 100% trust the code I do control. Partially because a lot of it is inherited but also because I know corners were cut but I can't always remember when and where