Re: [cobalt-users] Daylight Savings

["Rob Evans" <robe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Revd leonard payne" <vicarage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Daylight Savings


> on 25/10/01 4:50 pm, David Lucas at david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mumbled
something like:
>
> > At 08:51 AM 10/25/2001, you wrote:
> >> When the clocks roll back one hour in the US at 2AM, what will happen
to the logging on the server?
> >> Will the time period from 1AM-2AM show twice as many hits as normal?
(yes I do get visitors during that time period...a lot!)
> >> Thanks,
> >> Paul
> >
> > Can you suggest something better?  Or can you fill in the missing hour
in
> > the spring?
> > Logic would suggest just as you suggest, you will have two 1am to 2am
> > periods as everyone everywhere will.
>
> We could do as the military do and use 'Zulu time'
> that is GMT and don't touch it
>
> But there again, I'm just a xenophobic brit ;-)
>
> Blessings
>
> Revd leonard

We have users in 2 states in Australia, both on the east coast.  NSW has
daylight saving (due to start this weekend), and Qld doesn't - they're
nearer the Equator, closer to the Sun, and their cows don't like the upset
that would be involved!

I leave our server on ordinary (non-daylight saving) time, and our NSW
Windows machines make the time correction, while the Qld machines don't.
When I tried (in our server's first year) changing the time on the server,
that screwed everybody up - we were all then an (extra) hour ahead of
ourselves.

The result is that the server neither gains nor loses an hour at the
changeovers.  So there are no implications for the logging, other than that
I have to remember that the server is an hour behind me during Summer-time.

Regards, Rob Evans