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The worst offender for all time has to be Oracle.

Outside of '01-JAN-1999', I am forever Googling "TO_DATE Oracle" because the string formats for precision time stamps always turn out to be counter-intuitive, and the exact opposite of what I expect.

Like:

  TO_DATE('01-JAN-1999 23:59:59', 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
God damn you, Oracle!


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