[LINK] Banks online and the end of daylight time

[Rick Welykochy]

Gentle Linkers,

A thread has arisen on the SLUG list regarding the fact that both the
CBA and Westpac banks announce on the their online banking sites that
they will be offline from about 2:00 AM to 5:00 AM Sunday during
the end of daylight savings time. You know, that hour that jumps backwards.

The suggested reasons for this include normal system maintenance (coincidence?),
their Windows-based web servers not handling the changeover properly, or worse
still, the behaviour of their (archaic?) back-end systems is unknown when 3:00 AM
marches back to 2:00 AM.

Does anyone with banking experience actually know how well modern
banking functions during the daylight savings dropoff?

  * do ATMs continue to function? perhaps in an offline mode?
  * how about bank-to-bank transactions?
  * and the myriad of international-to-domestic connections and transactions?

Enquiring idle Easter minds want to know!


cheers
rickw


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