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The Prime Minister is expected to unveil plans on Friday for mayors to be handed a share of income tax revenue to spend locally.

I've been accused many times of having 'Trump Derangement Syndrome', an insulting suggestion that I'm worried about the President of the United States because there's something wrong with me.

FIFA have set the wheels in motion on a radical plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors. Daily Mail Sport digests the biggest danger to football since the European Super League.

A list of Greater Anglia services across Southend, Wivenhoe and Elsenham have been cancelled this morning, causing severe disruption for morning commuters.

A list of Greater Anglia services across Southend, Wivenhoe and Elsenham have been cancelled this morning, causing severe disruption for morning commuters.

Moore. Charlton. Greaves. Banks. Hurst. Their names are eternally sketched into footballing folklore for their 1966 World Cup heroics.

Natland was arrested in a hotel room in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, hours before he was due to carry out the hit...

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The animator in 2018 won the Best Animated Short Film Academy Award for Dear Basketball, which he had worked on with the late Kobe Bryant.

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Ben Affleck landed the rare $1,000,000 prize during his celebrity guest appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire this week.

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Qantas completed a record-breaking 24-hour, 24-minute test flight from Melbourne to Toulouse on Tuesday. "The specially adapted A350-1000ULR airliner is due to debut with the Australian carrier's nonstop Sydney-London route from 2027," reports The Guardian. From the report: Tuesday's flight is thought to be the longest ever by a commercial plane, beating the previous record of 22 hours and 42 minutes set by a Boeing 777-200LR in 2005 between Hong Kong and London via the Pacific in 2005. Flight-tracking provider Flightradar24 said the trip was the second-most-tracked flight ever on its channels -- behind a 2022 flight carrying Queen Elizabeth II's coffin -- with more than 3.6 million people following its progress northwards via Canada. Qantas has ordered 12 modified A350-1000ULR aircraft, designed to connect Australia's east coast with London and New York in about 20 hours.

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'What, a new one? They keep changing every five minutes,' he responded to Mr Burnham, after initially mistaking the Labour leader for a local candidate.

Prince Harry and six other famous faces are potentially facing paying millions of pounds in costs after their doomed legal claim against the Daily Mail, which they roundly lost.

Former The Only Way is Essex star, Gemma Collins has announced the death of her mum Joan with an emotional tribute.

Former The Only Way is Essex star, Gemma Collins has announced the death of her mum Joan with an emotional tribute.

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Killian Brendel was looking through the .NET source code, and found this comment on the TimeSpan struct.

// TimeSpan represents a duration of time. A TimeSpan can be negative // or positive. // // TimeSpan is internally represented as a number of milliseconds. While // this maps well into units of time such as hours and days, any // periods longer than that aren't representable in a nice fashion. // For instance, a month can be between 28 and 31 days, while a year // can contain 365 or 364 days. A decade can have between 1 and 3 leapyears, // depending on when you map the TimeSpan into the calendar. This is why // we do not provide Years() or Months().

Okay, a TimeSpan represents a duration of time. Makes sense. It can be negative or positive. Sure. It's a number of milliseconds. Okay, yeah. Other units of time get hard to represent that way, because months could have 28-31 days. Sure, yeah. I'm with you. And a year could contain 365 or 364 days, and a decade could have between 1 and 3 leapyears.

Wait, go back one. How long can a year be? I know negative leap seconds are going to be an issue, but negative leap days are gonna be way worse.

In the scheme of things, this isn't much more than a fat-finger typo. It doesn't impact the behavior of the class, which is why it's been sitting there since the initial commit, twelve years ago. The TimeSpan class itself hasn't been touched in that time, which also isn't much of a surprise, since it's really just a wrapper around a number of milliseconds. More complex date arithmetic, like AddMonths or AddYears is handled in the various date-time related objects.

So, is this a true WTF? Well, probably not. But it's interesting. Actually, the whole class is kind of interesting, as you can spot deprecated default constructors, as well as compile-time hooks for handling support for older versions of .NET including Silverlight, a technology that hasn't received an update since 2019, hasn't been supported in major browsers since 2015, and officially left support in 2021.

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