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Originally Posted by igorsk
At my former company we once had an unexplainable crash in our program which was happening only at a single installation in New Zealand. No matter how we tried we could not reproduce it locally, but the client was pretty important so eventually we had to endure painful speeds of their internet and debug remotely. It's a long story how we managed to localize the problem (I still can barely beleive we did it), but, as you can guess it turned out to be the timezone. NZ is in the UTC+12 timezone, but when the DST is in effect that becomes UTC+13. Well, the library from Adobe we used was checking the timezone offset for some reason and when it got anything over 12 it sort of went "you gotta be shitting me!" and somehow that took down the whole application.
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Whoa!!!
Well, my problem isn't quite as drastic as that thank goodness!
BTW, out of sheer curiosity, how long ago and what type of 'net connection did your client have at the time? (International bandwidth is EXPENSIVE here in NZ - courtesy of one source of intl b/w (the southern cross cable)...