Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006
Sven-Christian “Svenne” Ebenhag, 2026.09.17 Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006 Netnod Time Sometimes we at Netnod get the question, why does time matter. Netnod distributes Swedish national time and it might sound like it is a concern just for highly specialized engineers. If we do not have a common understanding of what “now” is, a lot of things we take for granted will stop working.
- ▪Sven-Christian “Svenne” Ebenhag, 2026.09.17 Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006 Netnod Time Sometimes we at Netnod get the question, why does time matter.
- ▪Netnod distributes Swedish national time and it might sound like it is a concern just for highly specialized engineers.
- ▪If we do not have a common understanding of what “now” is, a lot of things we take for granted will stop working.
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Sven-Christian “Svenne” Ebenhag, 2026.09.17 Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006 Netnod Time Sometimes we at Netnod get the question, why does time matter. Netnod distributes Swedish national time and it might sound like it is a concern just for highly specialized engineers. 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 our key takeaways are.
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