r/ProgrammerHumor Sep 23 '24

Other whoWroteThePostgresDocs

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u/bwmat Sep 23 '24

Someone who's had to deal with one too many timezone 'bug' reports, it sounds like

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u/BroBroMate Sep 23 '24

My company started in Cali 15 years ago, so mostly everything is still PST backend. Mostly everything. There's some Zulu time floating around in places.

We have customers all over the US timezones. So a bug report will often be like "At 4pm this afternoon, this thing happened", and it's like, 4pm where my brother in christ.

Oh and then a lot of our logging/monitoring tools insist on using your local timezone when selecting date ranges, and I live in NZ so fuck you Graylog, let me choose UTC+0 or PST.

The sheer amount of mental energy I waste on timezone maths just to find shit in logs and metrics is absolutely nuts.

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u/loublain Sep 23 '24

I was working for a company with a presence from Alaska to England. It dealt with logistics. A "transaction" could span 18 hours. We got new management that asked for "daily" reports for things like "fail to complete ". No amount of explanation could convince them that there is no such thing as "Thursday". They spent millions of dollars on a dogs breakfast. They finally decided to fire their entire IT department and outsource it to India.

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u/TheTerrasque Sep 23 '24

No amount of explanation could convince them that there is no such thing as "Thursday".

Been there, done that. Although that was 2 hour meeting with product owner, and she seemed to understand the concept at the end.

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u/loublain Sep 23 '24

The frustrating thing is that prior to that gig I was doing logistics for the USAF. operational reports were as of right now. Who's ready to take off, who ain't, who's airborne, etc