It's about time
- TAGS:daylight saving time, time stamp
- IT TOPICS:Data Center, Management
It's been two years, but some of the machines in this IT shop still haven't been adjusted to use the new rules for daylight-saving time, reports a sysadmin pilot fish working there.
"Management cannot justify the cost of replacing or upgrading them," fish says. "So we slog on with three weeks in the spring and one in the fall where some of the systems report the wrong time."
And because it's that time of year, there are several annoying time-stamp discrepancies that keep showing up -- but as fish keeps explaining, this will continue only for a week.
Thus it is that the boss complains at a staff meeting that the time stamp on a file is an hour off.
Boss: "Why is this happening?"
Fish explains for the 24th time.
Boss: "I need you to fix this problem immediately. When will you be done?"
Fish: Monday.
Boss: "OK. Next on the agenda..."
Sighs fish, "Do you have to be clueless to be in management?"
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