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Timezones are always the doom of programmers.


It's not yet the 20th anywhere in North America.


It is in China though...


One person got the joke ...


you might read that as a signal about the quality of the ‘joke’


Variants of this have been around for a century.

Russian Prime Minister Medvedev comes to President Putin and nervously tells him to abolish these time zones.

- Why, Putin asks him?

- Ah, I can't find myself with these times:

- I fly to another city, call home and everyone is asleep,

- I last woke you up at 4 in the morning, but I thought it was only evening,

- I call Angela Merkel to congratulate her on her birthday and she tells me she had it yesterday,

- I wish the Chinese President a happy New Year, and he says it will be tomorrow.

- Well, these are just minor awkwardness, Putin answered him

- Do you remember when that Polish plane crashed with the president? I called them to express my condolences, but the plane hadn't taken off yet !!


I live in Virginia.


But developers of TikTok live in Shanghai


Trump still has to do the inauguration. Even a reptile should understand the basic procedures of office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ina...




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