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Did Disney forget to reset their IT clocks?
- Thread starter Bandini
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So please point to your proof that it didn't change correctly over the last 4-5 years. Maybe they had a code change (they've been updating it a lot lately), and this little piece was missed during a deployment. Guess we'll find out on Nov. 5th.
So this wasn't an attempt to pretend like everything was perfect? Gotcha!Not sure what y'all are talking about. I can book one for up to and including May 11th.
So you take this as trying to discredit you???
2 am East Coast is only 11 pm West Coast, and if you jump your servers in Florida up an hour, then the West Coasters get read as midnight, making them eligible an hour earlier than they should be... it's confusing and inconsistent (not unlike normal day-to-day Disney IT). Why write all the exceptions into the code when you can just wait until 5 am and the problem takes care of itself?
By the time I tried, it was already after 8am eastern time, and the system was obviously up. When you first posted, I was under the impression that the system was still not available to book FP+, since you hadn't updated your post to state that the system was back up. You really need to stop reading so much into what people say, and stop acting like it's always an attack on you. You did note the
emoji at the end of my statement, did you not?
Oh now there you go, bringing logic into the discussion. And what about all the other countries in the world that change as well? Many do change nowadays.
Besides, isn't it fun to see if you can make the west coasters get up at 4 AM for nothing?
The only thing worse than getting up at 4 AM to schedule a 2 minute ride 2 months in advance is setting the alarm and getting up to do it, only to find out you can't.
Because you have customers all over the world? I'm certainly glad the airlines don't follow your programming theories!
Well-designed systems run on GMT, making issues like this moot. But that's "well-designed systems," not Disney IT.
All of our servers run on GMT, and I'll bet the Disney servers do as well. Only makes sense. Of course, the programming for when FP+ window doesn't necessarily look at the server clock.
Maybe they'll do that when they finish the forklift code rewrite. Sometime around 2045...
Don't know what you are all complaining about. The clocks don't change until later this month
Thanks for the explanation. I'm still amazed that a company that it so IT dependent has failed to improve their fundamental design flaws.
It does seem really early doesn't it?Don't know what you are all complaining about. The clocks don't change until later this month
rob0519
Well-Known Member
So, knowing this group, if Disney missed the change to DST for 4 or 5 years a row, there would be previous threads here just like this one. Entering "Daylight Savings Time" in the search box returns no such threads. So unless there is proof of errors in prior years I'm going to assume this is the first time it happened.
Since the site opened exactly one hour late, based on a post from another site, it was either an intentional decision by Disney management or a flat out screw up in the IT department. It's entirely possible that the team responsible for the time change in past years was outsourced and the process for changing to DST was missed in the mandatory knowledge transfer process.
However, as a previous poster indicated, no one got an advantage over anyone else. Everyone had to wait the same hour to book their 2 minute rides 60 days in advance. One hour of waiting online still beats 1.5 to 2.0 hours in the Standby Line in the hot Florida sun I guess.
But does it beat inserting your ticket in a machine and pulling out a return time?
sunsetblvd26
Well-Known Member
I cannot think of a more pointless thread topic. We really do have some seemingly quite bitter people on the forum, don't we?
EvilChameleon
Well-Known Member
In the time it took you to make this thread you could have waited the extra hour and then bought your goods.
BatStang2000
Active Member
Well, to be fair, Daylight Saving Time has been around for years but people still mistakenly refer to it as Daylight Savings Time. An extra 's', an extra hour............
Just because you like it, doesn't make it great. If it was so great, why hasn't it been implemented in every park and on every cruise ship? Answer: it's horribly flawed and expensive.