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I think a better choice for Programmers' Day would be New Year's Day, as there is no day 0.

New Year's Day would still be Day 1.

Yes, that's point. 0 and 1. No day 0, so make it day 1.

You're just taunting us that the year isn't zero-indexed! You could at least have the decency to hide it from us like Oracle[1].

[1] http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/substr.php

Wow, that was upsetting to read.

The best part is that they have to keep it to maintain backwards compatibility!

That's when you bring down the deprecation hammer and create a new function with a different name and sane behavior. No need to actually remove the functionality at any point, but at least they could get code bases to phase it out.

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