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The 1 Hour per Year Bug, but only in Pacific time


The date was November 8, 2021 and I was a bug triager on the Google Docs team. That day began like any other. I made myself some coffee and started looking through bug reports from the day before.…

Resetting the object’s hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds to zero so that it represented the current day’s start time. NoteThis bug never actually happened in Docs because you can’t create a comment or reply in the future and view it from the past. At the time of writing, August 2024, my bug fix has enjoyed two glorious hours of usefulness in exactly one corner of the world.

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