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Re:Ask HN: What is the funniest bug you encountered? by togusa2017 on Monday November 27, 2017 @07:10PM (#15793048)
Wrote a rate limiter in C. It broke when time got adjusted due to day light savings . Didn't take into account negative time delta. It was an ahuh moment when I realized the next day
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Re:Ask HN: What is the funniest bug you encountered? by GFischer on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:43PM (#15799475)
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1883/

And yes, I do hate working with timezones - and so does everyone else I guess, Outlook still fails to correctly send appointment invites across timezones when DST is involved.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the funniest bug you encountered? by bradknowles on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:01AM (#15804935)
UTC FTW!
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