[LEAPSECS] Fun fact about South African programmers...

[Paul Sheer]

South Africa is GMT+2. It has no daylight savings time.
Programmers in SA know that to convert to/from local time,
you just adjust by 7200 seconds.

Because of this, most programmers in SA (who work on
in-house code) don't understand much about time-zones.

They don't know how to use the convertion functions that
most programming languages offer because it is easy to
convert between local and GMT time by adjusting by 2 hours.

This is often hard-coded.

Any date discrepancies happen between 10pm and 2am
so are not noticed if outside of business hours.

South Africa is twice the size of Texas and would rank
about 15th in GDP if compared on the list of US states.

The entire of Africa also has no daylight savings but
is substantially serviced by South Africa for telecoms.

So I suppose a similar situation throughout.

-paul