We applications communicating with each other from literally hundreds of platforms.

Current Events » in reply to Why would setting the clocks forward 1 hour affect anything?

alcaray — 2/1/2007 11:33:51 PM (archived)

We communicate with many 3rd party platforms, as well. Some of the applications care what time it is. Some of the applications require consistency between timestamps on communications and what they themselves show as the time. When an inconsistency occurs some of the applications need code to account for it.

Since I'm in the insurance industry, an example: when a customer calls in to report a loss, a lot of logic is based on what date/time they called. Sometimes it is a program rather than a human that makes real decisions depending on time. It has to use something for that time/date comparison. Question is: does that time come from a source that "really knows what time it is"?

The whole thread (9 posts)

I didn't know this - "Clocks to spring forward early this year." - Bowser - 2/1/2007 4:03:59 PM
- Sounds like something the Democrats would do - Lindy - 2/1/2007 6:59:58 PM
- nother Y2K like event but with a much shorter timeline to fix (n/t) - Jack Herer - 2/1/2007 4:21:29 PM
  - We did a project to evaluate impact on all of our applications. - alcaray - 2/1/2007 4:41:04 PM
    - Why would setting the clocks forward 1 hour affect anything? (n/t) - SDF - 2/1/2007 10:42:46 PM
      - We applications communicating with each other from literally hundreds of platforms. - alcaray - 2/1/2007 11:33:51 PM
        
        So make calculations based on Universal Time Coordinated instead of local time. - SDF - 2/2/2007 6:19:48 AM
        
        not saying there isn't a solution. just saying that some applications are sensitive to time change. - alcaray - 2/2/2007 5:19:13 PM
      - re: Why would setting the clocks forward 1 hour affect anything? - Laurie Street - 2/1/2007 11:32:05 PM

Recent posts

On this day in Current Events

The whole thread (9 posts)