[–] tychuz 10y ago ↗ >So, using whatever language you want, php, python, perl, javascript, program something that gets today's date and time, then writes it to a file.Me:$ date > today.txtThis cracked me up. :) [–] zimpenfish 10y ago ↗ Good response to a good question. Next step is the interviewer saying "...in a 12 hour clock", "...in ISO8601 format", "...in France", etc.In fact, you could probably do an 6 hour interview just asking time and date questions and it would probably find you decent candidates.(Or i18n/l10n questions, if you're especially cruel.)
[–] zimpenfish 10y ago ↗ Good response to a good question. Next step is the interviewer saying "...in a 12 hour clock", "...in ISO8601 format", "...in France", etc.In fact, you could probably do an 6 hour interview just asking time and date questions and it would probably find you decent candidates.(Or i18n/l10n questions, if you're especially cruel.)
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$ date > today.txt
This cracked me up. :)
In fact, you could probably do an 6 hour interview just asking time and date questions and it would probably find you decent candidates.
(Or i18n/l10n questions, if you're especially cruel.)