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[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 30 points 11 months ago

It should have an option to add an event to your calendar.

[–] Icalasari@kbin.social 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

249d 19h for me

I don't think they know how to code a timer

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There was a timezone issue with their code. Mastodon, in the mastodon way, found a way to contact the site owner and they got everything fixed. People can be great, when given the chance.

[–] Icalasari@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am so used to the internet being cynical that I forgot people can be nice

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

Same here. I reread the message chain several times before it sunk in that they were being kind and not dickish haha

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

probably just didn’t take into account time zones so it’s different based on the offset (likely to UTC)

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

can star trek make an episode about squaresoft putting out an hd remake of final fantasy ix in 2025 next then?

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 10 points 11 months ago

It's science fiction not fantasy

[–] directive0@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

That reminds me I need to buy some land in bozeman montana.

[–] porthos@startrek.website 10 points 11 months ago

Something I find funny is that a lot of people who don’t know Star Trek that well and have only seen a couple of episodes assume Star Trek is the super optimistic view of humanity that is unrealistically positive about humanities future when if you actually look at the timeline in the 2000s and 2100s Star Trek is actually seriously apocalyptic. Humanity doesn’t turn to a good future out of some inevitable human kindness, it tries violence over and over again until some crazy guy makes a warp engine out of the rubble of destroyed civilization and the Vulcans show up.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fingers crossed, I want my science-based utopia

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

How did you get a screenshot 2 days in the future? When I click on it mine is 249 days, 20hours, 16minutes......

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

temporal displacement obviously

[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

There is a temporal cold war currently so it checks out

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It appears to be using JavaScript to count down, and JavaScript uses a browser's local time by default rather than something sensible like UTC. Someone else has noticed it in the Mastodon thread: https://aus.social/@USSJoshuaNorton@trekkies.social/111656784005786289

[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I mean wouldn't any sensible developer just use one of the many npm packages that do count down from UTC?

Which would also be using JavaScript?

Sorry I don't mean to quibble it's just that imo JavaScript has nothing to do with this faulty countdown, it has to do with the developer overlooking edge cases.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

the developer overlooking edge cases.

I take every opportunity to share my favorite Computerphile episode: The Problem with Time & Timezones.

[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I have seen this episode.

That is EXACTLY why I don't understand why someone wouldn't just use an NPM package that already has all that stuff sorted out. Could you imagine trying to code to deal with different time zones?

Forget about it.

[–] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So because they messed up, they're not a sensible developer? Jeez...I sure wouldn't like to work with you.

Mistakes are part of life, especially when your job is solving problems, and thus you can be both a sensible developer and still make mistakes.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

...

You make it sound like I verbally abuse people for bad code.

It's famously difficult to implement your own time-based systems that also deal with timezones.

Ya know, I'm fairly certain I wouldn't want to work with someone like you either, who seems to jump to conclusions based on an off-hand comment I made that wasn't meant to be particularly cynical.

My main point of the previous comment is that it has nothing to do with JAVASCRIPT, just the developer on the other end. Drawn whatever conclusions you want from that assertion

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Wouldn’t those also reflect an error in the local system clock if it was not set correctly?

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe they coded it from the day Cisco and Bashir arrived in 2024, not the actual date I'd the riots.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 11 months ago

What's alarming is how ridiculously close this is to reality right now...

[–] Lath@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Can we speed them up? I'm not sure we're going to last that long.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 11 months ago

Be the change you want to see.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

I think its silly when star trek tries to predict the upcoming decades. I liked the original series when they went back to the great depression

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

As long as it's not a Greene countdown.