Time Lord Jason H. has lost control of his calendar. "This is from my credit card company. A major company you have definitely heard of and depending upon the size of the area you live in, they may even have a bank branch near you. I've reloaded the page and clicked the sort button multiple times to order the rows by date in both ascending and descending order. It always ends up the same. May 17th and 18th happened twice, but not in the expected order." I must say that it is more fun when we know who they are.
A job hunter with the unlikely appelation full_name suggested titling this "[submission_title]" which seems appropriate.
"The browser wars continue to fall out in HTML email," reports Ben S. "Looking at the source code of this email, it was evidently written by & for Microsoft products (including <center> tags!), and the author likely never saw the non-Microsoft version I'm seeing where only a haphazard assortment of the links are styled. But that doesn't explain why it's AN ELEVEN POINT SCALE arranged in a GRID."
"The owl knows who you are," sagely stated Jan. "This happens when you follow someone back. I love how I didn't have to anonymize anything in the screenshot."
"Location, location, location!" crows
Tim K.
who is definitely not a Time Lord.
"Snarky snippet: Found while cleaning up miscellaneous accounts
held by a former employee. By now we all know to expect how these
lists are sorted, but what kind of sadist *created* it?
Longer explanation: I wasn't sure what screenshot to send
with this one, it just makes less and less sense the more I
look at it, and no single segment of the list contains all of
the treasures it hides. "America" seems to refer to the entire
western hemisphere, but from there we either drill down directly
to a city, or sometimes to a US state, then a city, or
sometimes just to a country. The only context that indicates
we're talking about Jamaica the island rather than Jamaica, NY
is the timezone listed, assuming we can even trust those.
Also, that differentiator only works during DST. There are eight
entries for Indiana. There are TEN entries for the Antarctic."
Well.
In this case, there is a perfectly good explanation. TRWTF
is time zones, that's all there is to it. These are the
official IANA names as recorded in the public TZDB.
In other words, this list wasn't concocted by a mere sadist, oh no.
This list was cooked up by an entire committee! If you have the
courage, you can learn more than you ever wanted to know about time
at the
IANA time zones website
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