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Earlier this year there was a case where someone was accessing illegal stuff (as in, the sort of stuff that does warrant police kicking their door down at 4am)
by razakel 6y ago
Earlier this year there was a case where someone was accessing illegal stuff (as in, the sort of stuff that does warrant police kicking their door down at 4am) using public WiFi.
Except the ISP had forgotten to take into account daylight savings time and given the police the wrong customer's details. Oops.
- rovr138 6y agoouch More proof dates aren't easy.
- PHGamer 6y agothey would be if everyone would just use UTC
- Unklejoe 6y agoLet's go a step further and use TAI to avoid leap seconds while we're at it.
- gorgoiler 6y agoThe orthodoxy is that the two most common forms of time stamps are: (1) Unambiguous: a time in the past that is represented by the number of seconds since the epoch, Jan 1 1970. When coupled with a location/jurisdiction, they can be converted into a wall-clock time like “1:23pm 04 May 2006 Europe/Paris.” (2) Ambiguous (but semantically meaningful): a time in the future that would be shown on a clock at the location of the event. The logging of IP addresses would use the former. The upcoming trial date for illegal torrenting would use the latter.
- netheril96 6y agoSo who found out the DST issue in the end?