[LON-CAPA-admin] Daylight Savings Time?

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Todd,

> > More details about exactly what you set and what you saw could make it
> > easier for me to analyze this.. but barring that a diatribe on DST and
> > how we try to handle things follows. :-)
> 
> In PPRM, I'll click on, for example, the "Due Date" link for a resource.
>  In the box that pops up, I select a date, for example:
> "Wed Oct 31 2007 18:00:00 GMT-0600 (MDT)"  is what shows up in the date
> selection box.
> 
> However, when I submit that date, the PPRM screen now reports it as
> "Wed Oct 31 17:00:00 2007 (MST)"

That sounds look SuSE is outdated you can confirm it by doing this:
# zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 

Good output is somthing like:
CST6CDT Sun Mar 11 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 CST
isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
CST6CDT Sun Mar 11 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 CST
isdst=0 gmtoff=-18600
CST6CDT Sun Nov 4 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 CST
isdst=0 gmtoff=-18600
CST6CDT Sun Nov 4 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 CST
isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600

Bad would of course mention April & Oct dates.

Looks like there was a timezone patch that came out 22-Feb-2007 for
SuSE 9.3

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guy at albertelli.com   0-7-0-6-27,137