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Dankort breaks down every year

🕠︎ - 2005-10-30

The Danish banks joint card system Dankort broke down when the country changed away from daylight savings time last night.

The system is very popular and quite a number of years old (it has been around since 1983/84); one could even be tempted to call it "mature".

Each and every year daylight savings time is in effect during the summer in Denmark.

The strange thing is this: The dayligt savings time related breakdown also happens each and every year!

🕠︎ - 2005-10-30 - 0 comments

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