I worked for a now-dead company that liked to prefix their product names with life|. It was part of the branding and it became a bit of a gag internally with the dev team - to the point of us calling the clock module life|time.
This spawned a joke when one of my colleagues left his PC unlocked. I went into his Windows time zone localization settings and I customized the AM/PM string to be |time instead of AM or PM.
In effect, this made his task bar read 11:09 |time for example. Things like windows explorer also reflected this.
This, however, is not where he found the issue.
The clock module in our software was a very faint watermark on the back of the main screen of our multimedia application. He launches the application locally and it says 11:09 |time in giant lettering.
He immediately suspects that someone has modified the application code on his local machine and starts looking through the time module line-by-line. Didn't look for differences in version control or see if other coworkers had the same problem. We finally had to stop him and explain it so he wouldn't burn a bunch of time trying to debug a Windows feature he didn't know about.
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I worked for a now-dead company that liked to prefix their product names with
life|. It was part of the branding and it became a bit of a gag internally with the dev team - to the point of us calling the clock modulelife|time.This spawned a joke when one of my colleagues left his PC unlocked. I went into his Windows time zone localization settings and I customized the AM/PM string to be
|timeinstead ofAMorPM.In effect, this made his task bar read
11:09 |timefor example. Things like windows explorer also reflected this.This, however, is not where he found the issue.
The clock module in our software was a very faint watermark on the back of the main screen of our multimedia application. He launches the application locally and it says
11:09 |timein giant lettering.He immediately suspects that someone has modified the application code on his local machine and starts looking through the time module line-by-line. Didn't look for differences in version control or see if other coworkers had the same problem. We finally had to stop him and explain it so he wouldn't burn a bunch of time trying to debug a Windows feature he didn't know about.