More code comments that won't get shipped

[mithriltabby]

Background: I’m writing a script to read data out of ClearCase history records. The format code %Nd is used to get the maximally specific timestamp for an operation, in yyyymmdd.hhmmss format. The lshistory command accepts a parameter -since that allows you to see all records that have been entered since a given timestamp. And -since insists that its long date format look like dd-month-[yy]yy.[h]h:[m]m:[s]s, which means that if I want to grab the most recent record and stash its timestamp to use as the -since for the next query, I have to rearrange it.

Somehow, I suspect that I will be required to redact this comment before we ship a script containing it:

# $when is in yyyymmdd.hhmmss format.  It is, of course, invalid as input
# to "-since", because that would be presenting a consistent interface,
# which would doubtless violate some engineer's Dark Pact and cause their
# soul to be claimed immediately.

Comments

Hah!

[danine.livejournal.com]

A wonderful example of presenting technogeek humor so the rest of us can get it. (And it didn't even give me a migrane... as C++ and calculus do on sight!)

Re: Hah!

[mithriltabby]

Good to see my translation skills haven’t gotten rusty. Humor is one of the trickier things to manage...

Re: Hah!

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

Very well done. My compliments.