Re: Pet Peeves?

Richard Huxton wrote:
> Gregory Stark wrote:
>
>> Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>>> 3. Date handling
>>>>> Sometimes I've got data with invalid dates and it would be great if it
>>>>> could replace all the bad ones with, say "0000-00-00".
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> Oh dear $DEITY, no.
>>>
>> I think it would be best if we limited ourselves right now to discussing the
>> problems themselves and not debating the pros and cons of possible solutions.
>>
>
> It seems I need to point out that the 0000-00-00 thing was supposed to
> be a joke.
>
>
That's a relief! :)

I guess I've spent so much time racing from colo to colo to office and
answering midnight pager calls that my humor-detector got broken.

Cheers,
Steve