[beachy]

In our applicant tracking product, we had a close date by which candidates must apply for the job.

Early on there was a bug due to timezone handling where the job would close an hour too early.

No big deal one would think - the job is open for weeks, maybe months, so who cares if it closes at 11pm on the last day instead of midnight?

It turns out that a lot of people live their lives by the "last minute" principle. They want to do things at the very last minute, and they get furious when the last minute comes too soon.

[tshaddox]

It's silly to demean the people who did that. You were the one that defined the existence of a "last minute we will accept applications," not those people. If you had wanted everyone to submit applications an hour before that time, you should have defined that to be the last minute (and then not demeaned people who submitted in that last minute). There's either a last minute you will accept applications, or there isn't!