The Daily WTF

As we enjoy our holiday today, in this seemingly unending year of 2020, our present to you is a blast from 2012, the year the world was supposed to end. Original –Remy

“Most people spend their New Year’s Eve watching the ball drop and celebrating the New Year,” writes Jason, “and actually, that’s what I planned to do, too. Instead, I found myself debugging our licensing activation system.” “Just as I was about to leave the office, I received a torrent of emails with the subject ‘License Activation Failed’. One or two every now and then is expected, but dozens and dozens at four o’clock on New Year’s Eve… not so good. It took me a moment to realize the significance of 4:00PM, but then it hit me: I’m on Pacific Time, which is UTC -8 hours.

“The error message that was filling up our logs was simply

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