What a day. It’s amazing how much you rely on something when it’s suddenly taken away. When you actually sit down and look at it, there’s a lot of things that rely on the time - or more specifically, the time being correct.
The problem is, when the Australian State Governments start to fiddle with the dates that daylight savings operate through, modern devices and technology that rely on the information can’t keep up. With the lead time of just a few months, many people found themselves with devices that didn’t know the changeover date has been pushed back a week. Today I found myself taking on the role of the “timekeeper” while I hunted out rogue systems that were missing the relevant patches that correct the time zone information. It seemed that with every problem we discovered, another one crept up as a result.
It begs the question, is it really worth moving it forward one week? Australia now has four separate time zones when you take into consideration all the differing daylight savings periods. Lucky my Mac knows what’s going on - it got the update from Apple months ago!