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1. jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 05:41:16 JST jwz

   Today in "Daylight Savings Chaos Monkey"

   If you have backups but you have never tried to restore them, you do not have backups. This is true.

   I made a MySQL oopsie, and tried to restore a table from my voluminous backups of same, and was met...
   https://jwz.org/b/ykM4

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 05:41:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     @jwz I ran into a variant of this problem early in my career because I made the naive assumption that people filling out paper forms would put dates that actually exist on them.
     Turns out thousands of people wrote down what the weather was like on February 29th, 1900.

     a year that wasn't a leap year, so it didn't have any February 29th.

   • Alex Rosenberg (alexr@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 06:16:46 JST Alex Rosenberg

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone @jwz What did the same people write for the next day’s report?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 06:16:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Alex Rosenberg

     @alexr @jwz some of them left it blank, some of them had data for that day too.

     I was told the only way to deal with it was to flag it and report the records to someone with more PhDs than me