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Daylight saving bug silently shifted bank settlement cutoff
Original: Reconciliation broke twice a year for months before we found the pattern. Our settlement cutoff was defined as 23:00 loc
An engineer describes a reconciliation system that broke for months twice a year because a banking settlement cutoff of 23:00 local time was converted to UTC once at deployment and hardcoded. When clocks changed, the cutoff silently shifted by an hour, causing mismatches until the seasonal pattern was identified. The story highlights how time zone and daylight saving handling remains a common source of bugs in financial software.
Why now: It is a relatable cautionary tale about daylight saving time breaking time-based software logic.
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- Reconciliation broke twice a year for months before we found the pattern. Our settlement cutoff was defined as 23:00 local time, converted to UTC at deploy time and hardcoded. Worked fine for six months, then the clocks changed and the cutoff silently shifted by an hour… · hackaday@www.urbanmind.net · 2
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