The Order of Daylight Saving Time

Time zones, leap years and daylight saving: the scheduled jobs that ran twice, or not at all.

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Meaning

Time zones, leap years and daylight saving: the scheduled jobs that ran twice, or not at all.

Design

Front (Obverse)

Top rim: THE ORDER OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
Bottom rim: TEMPORAL ANOMALY DIVISION
Center: A bewildered time traveler stands in front of a cracked clock tower whose face shows two 2:00 AMs, while a calendar page tears itself in half.

Back (Reverse)

A globe circled by clock hands, inscribed "IT'S ALWAYS UTC SOMEWHERE".

Finish & Style

Antique bronze challenge coin, ~1.75" diameter, high-relief center scene, raised rim lettering, beaded outer edge. Matches the existing ITChallengeCoins series.

How to Earn It

Fix a bug caused by a time zone, DST change, leap year or leap second.
Or be on call during a DST changeover when a scheduled job misbehaved.
Or convert a system to store all timestamps in UTC.

Citation

For navigating the hour that happened twice and the hour that never was.