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Many programmers are accustomed to the idea that dealing with time is hard. Despite that it's still quite easy for things to go awry, even when you think you're doing the right thing. This is the story of a bug report from Portugal that ended up being the most mysterious problem I've solved at work so far. The Chalk Outline At $DAYJOB I was working on a team which maintains a particular command line tool. One day a user reported to us something like this: Sounds odd. Who would design such an ...