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Subject: Re: Strange ICC time change effect

Author: Darren Kong

Date: 19:36:35 10/29/00

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On October 29, 2000 at 11:26:35, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 29, 2000 at 03:27:45, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>This was so weird I figured I had to mention it. Yesterday I started a 60 10
>>game against crafty on ICC. Amazingly, at 1:00AM (when the clocks were moved
>>back an hour) ICC dropped an hour from Insomniac's time, leaving it with just
>>over 1 minute! This is an interesting kind of bug that is hard to test for when
>>you write server code....
>
>FICS has the exact same bug.
>
>Quite funny huh, considering that they are supposedly based on
>two totally different sources. Or at least, that's what they've
>been claiming.
>
>--
>GCP

Not really Garf you see since ICC started with the fics source but when they
started charging Sparky seperated! So the base source is still part of fics
right?

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