Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006 The opposite is actually the case. If we do not have a common understanding of what “now” is, a lot of things we take for granted will stop working. This summer, Australia realized this the hard way. Let me take this opportunity to give an example of why time matters to a modern society, what happened in this particular case, and what o...