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               “My unit test had moved Greenland into Argentina.”
                                        
> … but on October 7^th this year, Argentina announced that it wasn't going
> to use daylight saving time any more … 11 days before its next transition.
> The reason? Their dams are 90% full. I only heard about this due to one of
> my unit tests failing. For various complicated reasons, a unit test which
> expected to recognise the time zone for Godthab actually thought it was
> Buenos Aires. So due to rainfall thousands of miles away, my unit test had
> moved Greenland into Argentina. Fail.
> 

Via Hacker News [1], “OMG Ponies!!! (Aka Humanity: Epic Fail) - Jon Skeet:
Coding Blog [2]”

I have no words for this, other than “be afraid. Be very afraid.”

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3294092
[2] http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2009/11/02/omg-ponies-aka-

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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