Extended Downtime 12-13-2014

[JohnCarver]

Several larger issues popped up. This may take several hours. We hope to be up later in the day. I greatly apologize for the delay but as I feared there would be some larger issues that have now popped up in fundamental systems that need to be addressed immediately, and correctly, even at the cost of some server downtime.

Thank you for your patience.

[Heffernan]

already waiting for the Compensation

[JohnCarver]

Ill be sure to send you out another blanket.

[NordErdTod]

I love JCs trolling ))

[Scilly_guy]

A word on date formats, there are three commonly used formats and they should be distinguished by the delimiter. For example:
12/13/14 is the 13th of December 2014 (American)
12-13-14 is the 12th of some imaginary month 2014 (European)
12.13.14 is the 14th of some imaginary month 2012 (Asian)
Although in these examples I have omitted the 2000 to exaggerate the confusion that can be caused, the year should be YYYY to avoid such confusion.

[Kandarim]

those delimiter rules are nothing I've ever heard of, and we (european) just use them interchangeably.
Just keep in mind the devs are american after all.

For that matter, I knew american's have a weird system but I hadn't heard asians were even worse.

[grapefruitv]

For that matter, I knew american's have a weird system but I hadn't heard asians were even worse.

I wouldn't say it is worse, unlike completely nonsensical merican system, it doesn't break gradation.

[Scilly_guy]

I'm european too, it mainly comes up when using the php function strtotime(), but it can cause confusion on dates in the first 12 days of a month, other than that any human being can figure it out. I was just being finicky really because the server is down and I am grumpy and hungover.

The Asian system makes a lot of sense when it comes to computers, if you name things with the date (such as photos) then sorting them by name will sort them chronologically.

[loftar]

Or you just use the ISO format, 2014-12-13, and there will be no ambiguity whatsoever. :)

[allpedro]

JC , please let us know when you have a more accurate idea of when the server will be back.