Of course, that brings up the issue of WHAT day it is, and the need to
cleanly support non-gregorian calendars. And the next thing you know,
incrementing by a day involves half a CPU second because you need to
run a physical model of the orbit of the moon to work out if you are
at a month
On Thursday 15 April 2010 13:35:13 Adam Kennedy wrote:
And the next thing you know,
incrementing by a day involves half a CPU second because you need to
run a physical model of the orbit of the moon to work out if you are
at a month boundary.
If you're trying to deal with that calendar, even
On 1 April 2010 16:56, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote:
Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net writes:
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:39:00PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
If it was my call, I would probably do the same thing. Way too many
developers get simple things like this day has no
On 1 April 2010 17:11, Peter Hardy pe...@hardy.dropbear.id.au wrote:
None of this would be a problem if we'd just switch to decimal time in a
single timezone and call it a day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
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On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 16:56 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
...but the real question is if we love or hate the GMT/UTC difference, and
23:59:61?
Daniel
Also, do we hate the earthquake that changed the length of the day for messing
with our time-keeping?
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 16:56:41 +1100
Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote:
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:27:23PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Not sure what Linux has to do with this -- there's far more going
on (with dates and times especially) in a complex stack of software
than just the OS.
quote who=Nick Andrew
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:27:23PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Not sure what Linux has to do with this -- there's far more going on
(with dates and times especially) in a complex stack of software than
just the OS. Consider the amount of legacy software and multi-system
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 05:47:37PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Nick Andrew
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:27:23PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Not sure what Linux has to do with this -- there's far more going on
(with dates and times especially) in a complex stack of software than
Nick Andrew wrote:
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 05:47:37PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Nick Andrew
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:27:23PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Not sure what Linux has to do with this -- there's far more going on
(with dates and times especially) in a complex
Jake Anderson wrote:
The bank may well be pretty sure that nothing will go wrong but given
the cost/benefit ratio its prudent not to take the chance that there is
one line of code somewhere or another in the many tens of millions they
have that will freak out when the clock goes backwards.
I have to agree with Daniel. shutting them down is the safe option. Having a
service unavailable through the wee hours is far preferable then say having
to undo a whole of transactions that inadvertantly get run twice (think of
all the automated payment systems scheduled to run at certain times).
Rick Welykochy wrote:
Jake Anderson wrote:
The bank may well be pretty sure that nothing will go wrong but given
the cost/benefit ratio its prudent not to take the chance that there is
one line of code somewhere or another in the many tens of millions they
have that will freak out when the
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:47:32 +1100
Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com wrote:
Rick Welykochy wrote:
Jake Anderson wrote:
The bank may well be pretty sure that nothing will go wrong but
given the cost/benefit ratio its prudent not to take the chance
that there is one line of code
I noticed the following on the Commonwealth netbank site this morning:
NetBank, Mobile Banking and Telephone Banking will be unavailable between 2am
and 5am EST on Sunday 4 April 2010 to allow for the changeover from Australian
Eastern Daylight Savings time to Australian Eastern Standard time.
Jim Donovan wrote:
I noticed the following on the Commonwealth netbank site this morning:
NetBank, Mobile Banking and Telephone Banking will be unavailable between 2am
and 5am EST on Sunday 4 April 2010 to allow for the changeover from Australian
Eastern Daylight Savings time to Australian
Jim Donovan wrote:
I noticed the following on the Commonwealth netbank site this morning:
NetBank, Mobile Banking and Telephone Banking will be unavailable between 2am
and 5am EST on Sunday 4 April 2010 to allow for the changeover from Australian
Eastern Daylight Savings time to
Jake Anderson wrote:
Odds are its more to do with their internal applications which are
probably written on cobalt running on CP/M machines or something
equally modern.
It'll more likely be an old IBM system Z (aka z series aka s390) mainframe.
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David Gillies wrote:
Jake Anderson wrote:
Odds are its more to do with their internal applications which are
probably written on cobalt running on CP/M machines or something
equally modern.
It'll more likely be an old IBM system Z (aka z series aka s390)
mainframe.
yeah, something along
quote who=Rick Welykochy
Similar for Westpac: Online Banking will be unavailable due to scheduled
maintenance from 02:50 to 04:15 AEST on Sunday 4 April 2010.
Another one not using Linux.
Not sure what Linux has to do with this -- there's far more going on (with
dates and times especially)
David Gillies wrote:
Jake Anderson wrote:
Odds are its more to do with their internal applications which are
probably written on cobalt running on CP/M machines or something
equally modern.
It'll more likely be an old IBM system Z (aka z series aka s390) mainframe.
Dated Tue 25 Jun 2002
Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com writes:
Jim Donovan wrote:
I noticed the following on the Commonwealth netbank site this morning:
NetBank, Mobile Banking and Telephone Banking will be unavailable between
2am and 5am EST on Sunday 4 April 2010 to allow for the changeover from
Australian
.
-Original Message-
From: slug-boun...@slug.org.au [mailto:slug-boun...@slug.org.au] On Behalf Of
Jeff Waugh
Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2010 3:27 PM
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: Why so snooty? Re: [SLUG] Which bank doesn't use Linux servers?
quote who=Rick Welykochy
Similar for Westpac: Online
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:39:00PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
If it was my call, I would probably do the same thing. Way too many
developers get simple things like this day has no 2:30AM or this day has
two 2:00AMs wrong.
That's why Daylight Savings is fundamentally evil. Too much time data
Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net writes:
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:39:00PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
If it was my call, I would probably do the same thing. Way too many
developers get simple things like this day has no 2:30AM or this day has
two 2:00AMs wrong.
That's why Daylight
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:27:23PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Not sure what Linux has to do with this -- there's far more going on (with
dates and times especially) in a complex stack of software than just the OS.
Consider the amount of legacy software and multi-system integration involved
in a
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