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Darius Kazemi

Just a little thing I noticed this morning -- the favicon on Google Calendar tabs always shows the day of the month. This morning I came back to my laptop and my calendar tab had been in some kind of sleep state so it read "30". I went and reloaded the page and interestingly, instead of going straight to "1", it went to "31" for half a second and then refreshed itself to "1". Which means there must be some code somewhere that says "increment the day by 1. then check to see if that's correct."

A square icon meant to evoke a sheet of the old tearaway one-a-day calendars. It contains a large "1" in the middle, as today is July 1.
4 comments
colin mitchell

@darius proof that date math is basically impossible

Josh Lee

@darius i think that's the default favicon before Google 31 has fully loaded

Nick Doty

@darius I think there might be a backup (and actually, higher resolution) favicon that always shows "31" (which it used to show every day), and it might have shown that until it completed loading the new one

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