BVLog » funny http://bvlog.vosswerx.com Bryan Voss' mental synchronization point Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:01:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Red light, green light http://bvlog.vosswerx.com/2008/10/27/red-light-green-light/ http://bvlog.vosswerx.com/2008/10/27/red-light-green-light/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:06:51 +0000 bvoss http://bvlog.vosswerx.com/?p=213 One of our enterprise application vendors recommends the following procedure for Daylight Savings Time change:

On the first Sunday in November you need to shut down blah applications during the time change to avoid duplicate chart times.

This is for a mission-critical 24x7 application that is used daily by hundreds of people.

Why don't we just go ahead and close the hospital for an hour to avoid duplicating any information?

Wow.

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User: Um, is that the number zero or the letter zero?

Me: (Dumbfounded silence) That would be the number zero.

User: Ok, thanks!

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