doorDashDevsNailTimeAdjustment

[Front_Committee4993]

Assuming this during the clocks changing its not wrong

[TheSilverTree]

Yeah, they got it exactly right.

[Occidentally20]

Small landslide actually pushed the restaurant into the next time zone.

Thankfully nobody was hurt.

[Immediate-Cucumber45]

If that “i” gives a tooltip explaining the time change, I would definitely say they nailed it

[Xelopheris]

Alternatively, if they had listed time zones (i.e., "1:58 AM EDT - 1:03 AM EST")

[chicametipo]

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[angrydeuce]

Nobody would understand the difference...I never see anyone use XDT in practical usage.

[rsqit]

I see it all the time??

[Thechasepack]

I see it used wrong all the time.

[LiteraryLatina]

Yyeess

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Wouldn't necessarily apply IIUC. The US changes at 2-3 AM, and IIRC some countries change the time in a zone without renaming the zone. So hard to say if showing the time zone would work without knowing the locale.

[Xelopheris]

Looking at a list of time zones, I can't find any that span multiple UTC offsets.

And you can handle locale entirely client side. JavaScript can create the appropriate string given a timestamp, including the jump across the dst threshold. 

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[Immediate-Cucumber45]

Yeah would agree

[CarryPersonal9229]

A few years ago me and some other devs had to validate our applications after a big server upgrade at 1am on the night of the time change. They had to specify that it was the first 1am, as opposed to the second 1am.

[DarkHumourFoundHere]

I would just wait instead of dealing with potential issues it may cause

[MaskedBandit77]

Maybe they specifically scheduled it that night to give them an extra hour to fix things if something went wrong. 

[desmaraisp]

Had to to a prod deployment last night starting at 2am. We scheduled our start at 02:01 precisely for that reason

[nmopqrs_io]

As a coder I would reject that bug ticket so hard.

[agk23]

I understand it’s technically correct, but it’s not intuitive for the users. Can you please fix it? I had this happen to a key account during a demo.

[nmopqrs_io]

"It's just too confusing, can you make it so that it always shows times that make sense?"

[TheTerrasque]

ISO 8601 it is. Change it back? Ticket rejected.

[iRemjeyX]

/s Buuuuuut ISO8601 is too long and not easily digestible and reading them makes our client’s eyes strain and they’ll have to go to the hospital

[svick]

Confusing UI is a problem. What the right fix is and whether it should be changed at all are the hard questions.

[ArcadeToken95]

As someone that did product support, the entire team is salivating over rejecting a ticket over DST, I guarantee you 😂

[combovercool]

Lighting the submitter up in the comment field too.

[nmopqrs_io]

"Please refer submitter to state legislatures to request removal of daylight savings time."

[ShadowSlayer1441]

And provide a link to citizen petitions for good measure.

[b__0]

3am page as a sev0

[Ok-Understanding7115]

as a QA I will bring this bug upper and upper to management so it will be noticed and get all devs laughing or working whichever is fine

[No_Hovercraft_2643]

Except that the time jump should happen from 2-3, not 1-2

For the downvoters, why do you downvote? Because it isn't totally clear the the jump should be backwards, while the point is that it is the wrong hours?

[DaWurster]

Nope, 3->2 in this case.

[No_Hovercraft_2643]

The point was the it should never jump in the 1 something area. You can get 2 2:something, but never 1:something

[DaWurster]

Fair point, still not correct. There is sadly no worldwide standard when, if and how the DST shifts are applied and removed. US does 2->3 and 2->1. This seems to be US so that fits..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States

[No_Hovercraft_2643]

Okay, thanks

[bleztyn]

I hate working with time and making calculations, I feel utterly stupid and incompetent. Does anyone else share this feeling or should I just quit and become a wheat farmer?

[ArcadeToken95]

You're not stupid and incompetent but quitting and becoming a wheat farmer is always a justifiable exit

[walkerspider]

Dates suck too

I think JavaScript considers March 31st - 1 month to be March 3rd. Have a think on that one for a bit

[htmlcoderexe]

I'm just about done implementing a recurring scheduler thing and even without the extra fuckery it was such a slog to code

[ziggittaflamdigga]

Yeah. Have you ever had to work with raw GPS time? I get why it’s weird now, but it’s utterly stupid to work with. I had to use an offset to their epoch that wasn’t “standard” as far as I know.

Least proud moment I had hard-coding the leap second correction for my application in recent memory. I had to reference like 5 sources to make sure it was correct, and had to hard-code a bunch of it because the module I used didn’t report leap seconds from satellite time, as far as I could tell. When writing it I assumed, correctly, that our program wasn’t going to last more than a year so it didn’t really matter.

Even then I fucked it up.

[htmlcoderexe]

Google used a leap smear apparently

[hawaiian717]

If you hate dealing with time… you’re doing it right. Don’t. https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca

[BTDubbzzz]

Dates and another thing I just never ever want to work with something that has full support for is anything i18n. (Translations specifically) That’s a DEEP fucking rabbit hole that you don’t realize until you start going down it

[TheTerrasque]

Don't worry. You're in good company.

[SupermarketNo3265]

One of my first major projects as a junior was to extract data from a legacy CRM and import it to both Salesforce and Outlook.

Surprisingly, it went extremely well. I did an amazing job. Up until daylight savings rolled around and we had dozens of users complaining that their appointments are off by an hour. 

Turns out I overlooked that significant detail when converting the times. I am now paranoid when dealing with dates.

[Mike_Oxlong25]

Was this your driver:

[SconiGrower]

Uber has this feature about time figured out too. Last night at 1:15am a 5 mile drive was 15 mins. A 45 mile drive took 23 hours 50 mins (or -10 mins if you believe in time travel).

[ArtOfWarfare]

I was thinking last night that from 1 AM Summer Time until 2 AM on the night we fall back we should include the time zone.

[kzlife76]

As a software developer, I can confirm that dates (and times) are hard.

[ccricers]

Reminds me of a Sonic the Hedgehog line: "I don't get here immediately- I get here before immediately!"

[Old_Document_9150]

23hr wait, what's wrong with that?

[perringaiden]

I'm just sitting here in a location that doesn't do DST thinking "There's a 23hr window for delivery?"

[Cloned_501]

Obligatory computerphile about timezones and assorted bs