#timezones
Posts tagged #timezones on Dynamo Geeks: 3 posts from the community, most useful first.
Posts tagged #timezones
In ten days the clocks go back. Is your medication schedule ready?
On the last Sunday of October most of Europe goes back from summer time to standard time, and the hour from 02:00 to 03:00 happens twice. For most software this is a small annoyance. In a hospital it can mean a dose documented twice, or an infusion total calculated over the wrong number of hours. Siobhan wrote a very good story here some weeks ago about a renewal test that failed one night a year. This is the…
the renewal test that only failed one night a year
promised this one ages ago so here it is. We had an end to end test for policy renewals. It ran every night at half twelve: create a policy starting today, jump forward a year, check the renewal quote and the end date. Green for months. Then one night at the end of October it went red, a policy that started on the 26th came out with an end date of the 25th the following year. Next night green again. Classic flake,…