Lmao, my Engineering brain is out here at work like I’m not done... It’s also cuz I’ve just been on Twitter for too long 😭💀
I’ve started to notice that twitter mistimes tweets. Specially in a thread... There are instances where the postmarked time for a tweet reply is a min later then its OP. Which makes me think that maybe Twitter uses an older version of Java prior to the java.time framework...
And the code written to retrieve/calculate current time in your time zone has a small(>2%) gap for imprecise time? Due to how difficult it is to use the prior methods(Usually instances), specially when it comes to getting it to give you the format you want...
I also noticed that after 2-3 more minutes, those tweets started to show a relative correct time gap(OP 22 min, reply 21 min). However, the time stamp was still odd (OP 1:13, Reply 1:12)
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