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Amazon should've made Prime Day fall on a date corresponding to an actual three-digit prime number. (sh.itjust.works)
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Amazon is running a Prime Day sale on July 16 and 17. Setting aside the fact that this is two separate days, neither 716 nor 717 are prime numbers. They should've done 7/19 instead.

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[–] esc27@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What if we just count all the nanoseconds since 1601 and divide by 100.

I still don't get that timestamp approach. Especially after learning how unix/linux handle it...

At least modern AD tools can automatically do the date conversions now.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Because it’s a basic data structure that holds time, instead of multiple interrelated ints…. And it’s easy to do math on.