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I'll just leave this here since it is just so 'simple' to state a verbal objective without any insight as to the complexity behind the words that were enunciate
by bokohut 2y ago
I'll just leave this here since it is just so 'simple' to state a verbal objective without any insight as to the complexity behind the words that were enunciated. We see this time and again in our ever changing complex world where technology already has established a clear lock-in dependency and now someone suggests to change a foundational aspect of those systems, time, without considering any impacts?
My trail of crumbs from experience: And what about all the daylight savings time software logic that is baked into critical systems which require perpetual uptime supporting said modern society? I ask this question because I have personally written daylight savings time management into several software systems and this 'old code' just works and has for decades. Now if that 'old code' is no longer needed, who is going to change it? If that code does get changed then how will it be deployed to those 'old' systems? I have so many more relevant questions for those not thinking about the impacts of this change but I do not want to overwhelm anyone reading up to this point. Consider for a moment your own devices that have a 24 hour clock contained within. It is beyond obvious to those of us who practice big picture thinking in which we know that the "majority" does not maintain their devices and with time being a core factor of most technology changing our implementation of time will therefore break a lot of that technology.
Should such a change occur it is not something that can be 'walked' in when business feels like doing it and therefore it IMMEDIATELY becomes a top priority for any technology impacted that MUST adopt the change. Another Y2K like event coming for those that lived the original one. We are certain to see a failure of several systems and one can only hope that changing time doesn't equate to those systems invoking loss of life because those with experience on such matters know that losses of all kinds are certain to happen, just give it time.