Re: Daylight Savings Time bug? Experts requested

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Hi Frankster,

Unfortunately it is just a web-based application that runs on the server
itself. When it displays an hour of data, it is just reading from the
date/time stamp of the hourly files getting written on the server in a
specific folder. There are no time settings in our web-based software.

For example: When the server time first displayed 3am, our software should
have displayed there was data getting written to a file on the server at 3am.
Even though the server time was displaying correctly, it was writing data to
a folder for 2am. When I changed the time zone from Central to Eastern, that
was the only time it started writing to the correct 3am file.

Bear with me as I try to answer your questions the best I can. It is
difficult to explain. I can give someone the address to our web application
if you want to email me at bjohs@xxxxxxxxxx That way you can see the
application in question.

Thanks,

bjohs

"Frankster" wrote:

Your "software" probably needs an update. It probably uses a UTC offset,
just like Windows, and is getting it wrong. My guess is that it will
"correct" itself on the 1st of April (the old DST start date), then be out
of sync again during the extended time on the end of the new DST.

Some examples of MS software that required its own update was Exchange and
MS Outlook. I believe also SQL Server, but I'm not positive about that
without visiting the MS DST page again.

I'd check with the software vendor.

-Frank

"bjohs" <bjohs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:CB952DE0-0C49-4417-AE02-756C5FBEFFA5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is my first time posting here. I hope I am posing this question in
the
right place. I don't know if I found a bug in Microsoft's DST patch.

First, an explanation of my software: My software reads the server clock
to
mark the correct hour for archiving surveillance cameras by the the hour.
This morning at 2am, the software did not mark the 3am hour at 2am when it
should have.

Problem: I checked the server time (Windows 2003 Server Enterprise) and it
was reading the correct hour of 3am. By all appearances the server is
displaying the correct time, but to my software it still appeared the time
was off an hour since it wasn't going by the time that was displaying on
the
server in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.

Temporary fix: I had to change the timezone to Eastern time instead of
Central Time in order to display the correct hour in our software. This
would
make me believe that Microsoft didn't "really" fix the problem.

Question: Does anyone know, or can anyone find out, if Microsoft's patch
only "masks" the correct time or if they didn't really fix the problem?

Thanks so much for any insight into what appears to be a bug to me!

bjohs


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