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hate to be harsh but ... (Score:2)

by jhi (318) <jhi@iki.fi> on 2006.04.05 0:43 (#46965) Homepage Journal

> I discovered this only in the late stages of testing version 3 of a large application that makes moderately extensive use of Datetime.

How is this possible? How can you have been using versions 1 and 2, and well into testing version, with the time stamps off by hours, without anyone noticing?

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- Re:hate to be harsh but ... (Score:2)
  
  by samtregar (2699)
  
  Hard to say for sure. I think the biggest factor is that although we do lots of date math in the application the actual times don't matter very much to the client. They'd tell us within a few days if we ever got the dollar amounts wrong but noticing a shift of a few hours on a monthly or weekly report is pretty tough.
  Another factor is that a lot of the most important dates were right. MySQL has a DWIM that matched our expectations - NOW() really is now, right here, on this spot on the planet. So times

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