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Starting this morning Jerboa crashes and Connect for Lemmy shows a spinner when trying to access Beehaw. My accounts on other Lemmy instances are working fine.

Is anyone else having similar issues?

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[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(not to defend lemmy more generally, but timestamps and databases are god's punishment for the hubris of software devs)

[–] shagie@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The relevant xkcd are:

And some fun reading: https://github.com/eggert/tz which combines all the things that you love:

Time zone database and code

My favorite part of North America file is about the California energy crisis

My favorite part of the Africa file is some emacs lisp for Morocco's Ramadan daylight savings (though Morocco has a rich history in the file as the descriptions start at line 595 and go through 877).