Spotted at Lobsters is a thread about a stackoverflow question on man; why does running "man -w" report "gimme gimme gimme" when run at 00:30?
This gets this response:
Pretty much the whole story is in the commit. The maintainer of man is a good friend of mine, and one day six years ago I jokingly said to him that if you invoke man after midnight it should print "gimme gimme gimme", because of the Abba song called "Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight":
Well, he did actually put it in. A few people were amused to discover it, and we mostly forgot about it until today.
The commit in question, and more commentary over at HackerNews.
Anyone know of other good easter eggs that have cropped up unexpectedly and caught users out?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday November 22 2017, @09:38PM (1 child)
I used to put specific messages in code that was going to go through code review. Some pretty obvious, and some more subtle.
Pretty good way to know who had looked at all, who had skimmed, and who I could trust to care about bugs.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday November 23 2017, @12:12AM
Yeah. If I never see you complain, maybe you didn't review my code :)
I kind of like your idea.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.