I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pink
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365.25, surely
Sure, if you want things at midday instead of midnight.
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The Python won't give an accurate date here because it doesn't take into account leap years.
Does the Ruby version do that though?
I haven't got it installed to check, but seeing constants like SECONDS_PER_YEAR in the documentation makes me think it's just as bad if not worse.
https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Duration.html
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I just started a new php gig
I work with Delphi.
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Using ruby felt weird, it felt like it shouldn't work but it does.
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didn't we gain or lose 0.00000001ish of a day recently? Like from tonga exploding or antarctica melting or something i can't remember.
That kind of thing happens surprisingly often.
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Ok, everyone who's ever had to use datetime hates it, but not because it's insufficient, but because international date/time is such a nightmare that the library must be complicated enough to support all the edge cases I'm convinced that library has a function for traveling trough time.
For years I've wrapped datetime with custom functions that do exactly and only what I want to mitigate its all-plumbing-zero-porcelain approach to the problem.
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I like Fish Shell better than python, not gonna lie. Easier to read and write. Especially if you already live in the terminal.
Python is more system agnostic though.
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timedeltamarks time in days, seconds, and microseconds. It doesn't take leap years into account because the concept of years is irrelevant totimedelta. If you need to account for leap years, you need a different API.You can subtract two dates and get the exact time difference.
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I miss Ruby DSLs so much. Python is bland. It's on purpose, I know and even appreciate it.
Yet I feel like Ruby syntax magic compared to Python blandness is like comparing a steaming plate of beautiful aromatic curry to plain rice.
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Python is more system agnostic though.
Lucky for me I control all the machines I write scripts for. So far...
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LLM is saying this is a feature of Rails and not particularly Ruby.
I was surprised Python didn’t have a years parameter but learned about
relativedelta(years=10)
LLM is saying...
Stop. Nothing at all past those three words is worth a damn.
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LLM is saying...
Stop. Nothing at all past those three words is worth a damn.
What is the purpose of this comment.
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This is exactly why I love PowerShell.
Need the [DateTime] object from 10 years ago? No biggie, just chuck
(Get-Date).AddYears(-10)down your console.Need it in a specific timezone? That one's trickier, but since PowerShell can do .Net, run this:
$TargetDateTime = (Get-Date).AddYears(-10) $TargetTimeZone = "India Standard Time" $tz = [TimeZoneInfo]::FindSystemTimeZoneById($TargetTimeZone) $utcOffset = $tz.GetUtcOffset($TargetDateTime) [DateTimeOffset]::new($TargetDateTime.Ticks, $utcOffset)And you get a DateTimeOffset object, which is this beauty:
DateTime : 25/08/2015 23:15:14 UtcDateTime : 25/08/2015 17:45:14 LocalDateTime : 25/08/2015 19:45:14 Date : 25/08/2015 00:00:00 Day : 25 DayOfWeek : Tuesday DayOfYear : 237 Hour : 23 Millisecond : 421 Microsecond : 428 Nanosecond : 600 Minute : 15 Month : 8 Offset : 05:30:00 TotalOffsetMinutes : 330 Second : 14 Ticks : 635761413144214286 UtcTicks : 635761215144214286 TimeOfDay : 23:15:14.4214286 Year : 2015DateTimeis the time in your target timezone,UtcDateTimeis, well, the UTC time, andLocalDateTimeis the time on host you ran the commands on. -
What is the purpose of this comment.
You didn't seem to be ashamed of admitting to asking an LLM a question as if it was helpful, wise, or respectable for you to have done. You should be.
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You didn't seem to be ashamed of admitting to asking an LLM a question as if it was helpful, wise, or respectable for you to have done. You should be.
This is a poor perspective to have on things towards a stranger on the internet. I hope you’re just having a bad day and that things get better.
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People still use ruby?
You probably use it everyday and didn't know it https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/building-github-with-ruby-and-rails/
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There's two of these threads?! Well ok here's the same comment.
10.years.ago On.a.cold.dark.night There.was.someone.killed 'Neath.the.town.hall.lights There.were.few.at.the.scene Though.they.all.agreed That.the.slayer.who.ran Looked.a.lot.like.me -
ahahaha oh come on, the comment was clearly a joke. To be honest, I'd be far more interested in gothly serious sam on the left.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Can't see the comment but judging by the uname you're right, that's Frank Reynolds' fake name from It's Always Sunny, Mantis Toboggan M.D. lmao. I'd wager 95% of what that person says is at least intended to be a joke/satirical/etc.
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The comparison is somewhat awkward, because the rails example presumably produces a date, while the python one is referring to an interval of time.
Just from the meme it's not obvious which was the actual intended use, so labeling either as inaccurate requires us to make assumptions.Personally, the concept of "10 years ago" is a bit nebulous to me. If today is February 29th, is ten years ago March 1st? Doesn't seem right. Or particularly useful.
Ruby should add 10.years.ago.today
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timedeltamarks time in days, seconds, and microseconds. It doesn't take leap years into account because the concept of years is irrelevant totimedelta. If you need to account for leap years, you need a different API.365.25*10 would at least get you closer.
