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What’s the source of this? Is sounds intruiging, I wonder what led them to that decision.
by stingraycharles 8y ago
What’s the source of this? Is sounds intruiging, I wonder what led them to that decision.
- _wmd 8y agoJust ask any current/former employee, it's practically folklore by now (i.e. knowledge older than 6 months)
- puzzle 8y agoTen years ago it was called jokingly GST: not Gulf Standard Time, but Google Standard Time. I don't remember outages, but the monitoring graphs when switching to DST, where plots go back in time, did look very funky. Something like this: https://imgur.com/a/ZRtt9 https://imgur.com/a/ZRtt9 The leap second troubles in 2005 (GFS?) that led to NTP smearing were more memorable.
- reaperducer 8y agoGoogle Standard Time Wow. Just... wow. Thanks for that. That phrase brought back a flood of old memories I'd forgotten.
- puzzle 8y agoI wasn't around at the time, but I suspect it's mainly because the first datacenters were on the West Coast. See e.g. the story at http://www.dodgycoder.net/2013/02/googles-fiber-leeching-caper.html http://www.dodgycoder.net/2013/02/googles-fiber-leeching-cap...