Jim Donovan wrote:
I noticed the following on the Commonwealth netbank site this morning:
NetBank, Mobile Banking and Telephone Banking will be unavailable between 2am
and 5am EST on Sunday 4 April 2010 to allow for the changeover from Australian
Eastern Daylight Savings time to Australian Eastern Standard time. Please take
this timeframe into consideration when completing your banking. For updates
during this change, please visit: www.commbank.com.au/update. Please press NEXT
to access NetBank.
Assuming it wasn't an April Fool joke, perhaps it means their databases use
local time and the logic won't permit transactions to be entered out of order
such as might appear to be if one happened just before the changeover time and
another less than an hour later.
How quaint! I remember hearing once that Commonwealth Bank servers were always
rebooted on Sundays so they'd be less likely to go down during the week.
Jim Donovan
Odds are its more to do with their internal applications which are
probably written on cobalt running on CP/M machines or something equally
modern.
Your probably lucky they even know time zones exist ;->.
You should have seen the massive DNS issues they had around xmas, I
believe they lost a whole data centre and ISP's around the place weren't
getting new DNS entries or something along those lines so netbank was down.
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