“The database server crashed … it must be high tide.”

A week without problems … everybody was happy. Happy, that is, until it started again. The same pattern. 10 hours on … 2-3 hours off …
And then somebody (I seem to remember he said that the person had nothing to do with IT (Information Technology)) said:
“It's high tide!”
Which was met with blank looks and probably a wavering hand over the intercom to Security.
“It stops working at high tide”
This, it would seem, is a fairly alien concept to IT support staff, who are not likely to be found studying the Tide Alamanac during the coffee breaks.

“It's high tide [1]”

Like the last problem [2] I mentioned, this one, while sounding entirely off the wall, does have a logical explanation as well.

Users. The problems they come up with sometimes …

[1] http://use.perl.org/~godoy/journal/9361

[2] /boston/2002/12/09.3

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