Error’d: Mais Que Nada

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The Daily WTF

I never did explain the elusive off-by-one I hinted at, did I? A little meta, perhaps. It is our practice at Error’d to supply five nuggets of joy each week. But in episode previous-plus-one, you actually got six! (Or maybe, depending on how you count them, that’s yet another off-by-one. I slay me.) If that doesn’t tickle you enough, just wait until you hear what Dave L. brought us. Meanwhile…

“YATZP” scoffed self-styled Foo AKA F. Yet Another Time Zone P*, I guess. Not wrong. According to Herr Aka F., “German TV teletext (yes, we still have it!) botched the DST start (upper right corner). The editors realized it and posted a message stating as much, sent from the ‘future’ (i.e. correct) time zone.”

Michael R. wrote in with a thought-provoker. If I’m representing one o’clock as 1:00, two o’clock as 2:00, and so

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