[SGVLUG] Today's real-life humor...

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 3/22/07, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> I don't know what the folks around here were thinking when they designed
> this, but the program we use to track "changes" to the system has a
> field for entering the date we plan to implement the change.  That in
> itself is fine, but what finally got my attention was the "helper" form
> for entering dates -- not a "calendar" form like EVERY other date field
> on the form, but rather a form with three drop-downs for year, month,
> and date, and [get this] a checkbox to indicate the date is "BC"...
>
> (yeah, I know -- not really a linux topic, though I'd like to think your
> average linux programmer would at least raise the "is this really
> necessary?" question during the design-review phase...)

Code reuse taken to the extreme?