Ah yes. It’s that time of year again. Daylight Saving Time is ending, and I’ve got to VPN into work to make sure the time change goes off without a hitch tonight at 2:00 am. Or is it 1:00 am? I never remember.
Anyway, I’m not responsible for some old legacy system. It’s several Windows 2003 servers, but they’re not the problem (for a change). It’s an internal process that uses a time stamp to create serial numbers, and since tonight we’ll be “falling back” an hour there’s a chance for problems.
There will inevitably be others working on code your writing. Do them a favor, don’t make your systems dependent on arbitrary factors external to the system. It’s just not very smart. You’ll introduce the possibility of bugs that are difficult to track down or duplicate not to mention the testing nightmare.
Like David Bowie said in “Changes“, Time may change me. But I can’t trace time.
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