In
<4ff9936e7708d445a1c50e882ea37f79089307e...@025-namsg-03.025d.mgd.msft.net>,
on 03/29/2011
at 07:01 AM, "Petersen, Jim" <[email protected]> said:
>It isn't the operating system that has the problem. It is the
>poorly written application programs which do not use the GMT time for
>their time stamps in whatever data records they are recording.
>Instead, way back when, they decided to use LOCAL time and then do
>computations on that LOCAL time field against CURRENT LOCAL time
>which gets them into trouble during the FALL BACK time change.
Way back when? Way back when there was no clock offset. If the
application was written in the early days then it's an issue of not
upgrading it to exploit new facilities, not of poor design.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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