[LON-CAPA-admin] Daylight Savings Time?

[Todd Ruskell]

Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> 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 That sounds look SuSE is outdated you can confirm it by doing this: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
> 

yup.  I think we've got it under control now.  Thanks as always.

Todd
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