Thanks! Fabulous summary that makes it easy for me to reply even without giving a video views. Also some of us are neurally wired to have tabs of information steams coming and a video blocks that. Ahah.

Y2K is an interesting comparison. I remember everyone infecting the moment when it was no big deal. Meanwhile jurisdictions the world over are ditching it and that makes BC by no means alone or without examples to show it will be fine.

For me it was a quote I forgot the origin: why did we change time to match factory work hours when we could have changed factory work hours to match time. Answer is a tale as old as time.

It is for alot of systems that where offline. And man there are a lot of bugs I had an access system that kept clicking on and off a relay till I changed the event to the same time zone. Why did it do this who knows.

The issue is that its a national operation so the difference between provinces that changed and provinces that didn't change creates the problem.

They would either need to create new time zone profiles for the provinces ditching daylight savings or they would have to manually swap the time zones of certain locations in the system every 6 months. I gather that both are now beyond the IT department's ability.

As I said in another comment, it's a national company so we operate in several different time zones. The issue comes from the fact that Ontario and Quebec (I think) are still changing their clocks. Otherwise I'm sure they could just change the clock on whatever server is running these legacy systems.

It's also a mainframe system so we are all logging into one system.

Also also (and I didn't find this out until this shit show happened) our employees in Saskatchewan have already been dealing with work time vs town time for like... well forever it looks like. So maybe the system NEVER could adjust for DST and the only reason it worked was because someone is manually adjusting the clock on the server. Idk. I'm at a complete fucking loss as to why this is an issue now, let alone how this could have been an ongoing issue in Saskatchewan for DECADES without anyone figuring out how to deal with it.

I mean I don't have any problems adjusting to it, time wise. Just schedule-wise.

It's just weird to be 2 hours off of Alberta.

I'm just getting off work at 6pm, and most of my friends in Alberta have young children and are up super early so we call it a night at 9:30pm Alberta time so they can get to bed and be asleep. They can't stay up an hour later for us to start later so it's up to me to leave work a bit early now. (mind you I got let go so no job at the moment, so not a huge issue).