GMT (Was: Re: Lotus Notes Locations & DST)

[jkwilli2 () UNITY NCSU EDU (Ken Williams)]

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:

> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:25:08 +0200
> From: Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz () HOSTMASTER ORG>
> To: BUGTRAQ () netspace org
> Subject: Lotus Notes Locations & DST
>
> Lotus Notes may under some circumstances silently change the System time.
> This happend here with "Location"="Office (Network)", "Local time zone"="Central European Time", and "Daylight 
> savings time"="Not observed here".
> Because this could cause severe problems with any software that uses time stamping any application not specifically 
> designed for time maintainance should prompt the user before tampering with the system time.
>
> Thomas
>
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as somebody mentioned recently (i think on ntbugtraq?), i think all
"mission critical" or "production" or [insert favorite buzzword here]
apps, servers and networks should use GMT, and only GMT, to avoid such
problems. NT4+SP4 apparently doesn't like daylite savings time in certain
situations, so that's all the more reason to stick with GMT.

Ken Williams
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