Small correction, it’s every fourth year except every hundreth year except every 400th year. I’m assuming the misconception comes from the last time it was a 100th also being a 1000th (2000) but the next time a leap year will end in 00 is 2400
Ahh right! Thanks for correcting me. Now that you mention it I remember too. It also makes sense, a year is roughly 365.2425 days long. Add 0.25 (one out of four), subtract 0.01 (one out of hundred), add another 0.0025 (2.5 out of thousand which is 1 out of 400)
I did look up the help for that function to make this meme but I must have missed that option. in my defense I’ve only been using Python for like 10 years
Python does have a year option that they are not using.
No, it doesn’t:
help(datetime.timedelta)
Help onclass timedelta inmodule datetime:
class timedelta(builtins.object)
| Difference between two datetime values.
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| timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0)
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| All arguments are optionalanddefaultto0.
| Arguments may be integers or floats, and may be positive or negative.
The python version seems buggy as fuck. Depending on which year you run it it’s off by 1-3 days
That sounds serious, can you give some example values we can test?
Sure, here’s one example for each case:
1 day off: 3650 days before 1907-01-01 is 1897-01-02
2 days off: 3650 days before 2027-01-01 is 2017-01-03
3 days off: 3650 days before 2025-01-01 is 2015-01-04
look I’m not trying to be a dick or anything, but do you not know about leap years and which years they are?
Yes, and I have no idea…
Leap years are each fourth year, except each hundredth year, except each thousandth year.
1896 leap year
1900 not leap year
1904 leap year
…
1996 leap year
2000 leap year
2004 leap year
…
2096 leap year
2100 not leap year
2104 leap year
Then you just arrange the 10 year window in different positions to overlap 1 to 3 leap years to reveal the three outcomes of the bug.
- / - - - / - - - /
- - / - - - / - - -
- - 0 - - - / - - -
- is a normal year, / is a leap year, 0 is an exceptional non-leap year.
Small correction, it’s every fourth year except every hundreth year except every 400th year. I’m assuming the misconception comes from the last time it was a 100th also being a 1000th (2000) but the next time a leap year will end in 00 is 2400
Ahh right! Thanks for correcting me. Now that you mention it I remember too. It also makes sense, a year is roughly 365.2425 days long. Add 0.25 (one out of four), subtract 0.01 (one out of hundred), add another 0.0025 (2.5 out of thousand which is 1 out of 400)
29 February 2028, 29 February 2032, 29 February 2036…
Python does have a year option that they are not using. Depending on the application I would use 365 for a year to get a consistent number of days.
I did look up the
helpfor that function to make this meme but I must have missed that option. in my defense I’ve only been using Python for like 10 yearsNo, it doesn’t:
help(datetime.timedelta)
Help on class timedelta in module datetime: class timedelta(builtins.object) | Difference between two datetime values. | | timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0) | | All arguments are optional and default to 0. | Arguments may be integers or floats, and may be positive or negative.