Daylight savings ended last night in the UK—the clocks went back by 1 hour.
This used to be something I worried about when I had weekend shifts at the local movie theatre during high school.
However, this morning I realised my daily post hadn’t been emailed out.
After some debugging, I realised the UK wound its clocks back shortly before my post was due to be sent. I think my post got “lost” as the clocks changed.
So I sent out a manual campaign, no big deal.
But today’s hiccup served as a reminder of the importance of systems and automated checks to make sure things work as they should.
Of course, if my daily post doesn’t go out for one day, that isn’t a big issue, but there are products and services that depend on everything always working. The electricity network, food supply chains, and public transport to name a few.
It’s food for thought.