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Re: Probelem with Date and daylight savings

#1027
From: Rich Wilkman
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:41
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It's not a case of deliberate misconfigure.  There are a couple states and some
cities that do not honor the time shift (for various reasons).

-Rich

"R.F. Pels" wrote:

> Hanan Hermon wrote:
>
> >>> The problem is that I need to do it ONLY if the OS is not configured
> >>> to use daylight savings (Tested on WinNT).
> >>
> >> Then configure it to use daylight savings.
> >
> > The problem is that it is user dependent, so if a user do not what it to
> > be configured then my application will not work correctly.
>
> That is your problem, however, in your requirements you may require of the
> user that he sets up his timezone correctly, including the adjust clock for
> DST setting if he is in a time zone that has that feature. If a user wants
> to deliberately misconfigure his machine, then any of the consequences are
> his, not yours. Other than that, if you do arithmetic, make sure you're
> doing all date and time arithmetic in UTC.
>
> --
>
> Ruurd
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