Jake Anderson wrote:
The bank may well be pretty sure that nothing will go wrong but given the cost/benefit ratio its prudent not to take the chance that there is one line of code somewhere or another in the many tens of millions they have that will freak out when the clock goes backwards.
What about ATMs? Will they be down for the count? If not, and the main systems are down, they must queue up transactions. The timestamps on those transactions will have to be handled correctly when the queue is processed. Including transactions during the hour the leaps back. The same can be said about bank-to-bank and bank-to-international transactions. It seems like a problem they must already have to deal with. Transactions world wide into and out of Australia do not stop for an hour at 2:00 AM Easter Sunday, do they? Anyone working in the banking sector out there? cheers rickw -- _________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Hofstadter's Law. "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
