Hey, I just noticed that the tiny little orange traffic cone icon on the upper left corner of VLC Media Player is suddenly sporting a red Santa Claus hat! How does a video player know it’s Christmas?
It check’s your system’s date. Changing it to Nov 1st makes the Christmas hat go away. I cant be bothered to check where it starts specifically.
I never noticed that. Cool!
Googling shows they added it in 2008.
Inevitably, somebody wants to remove it because to them it looks like "VLC has positioned itself as a Christians only project. " :rolleyes:
yeah, it’s trivial to get the system date & time.
Now you have to buy it a card.
That’s why mine doesn’t have it. It is version 0.8.6i, from 2008.