Bitten by the DST Bug

So I actually encountered a Daylight Savings Time-related bug today that kept me from being able to do what I wanted to do. It was on an online payment system — when I clicked the “make payment” link, the system consistently told me my session had timed out, despite the fact that I had only been logged in for a few seconds. I didn’t realized until later that the payment system probably hadn’t had its clock set ahead, so when I tried to connect, my session appeared to have been active for an hour, which was beyond their expiration time.

It’s a little bit exciting. It’s sort of like experiencing what the Y2K bug might have been like a tiny bit. Sort of.