[10151] in bugtraq
GMT (Was: Re: Lotus Notes Locations & DST)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Williams)
Fri Apr 9 15:53:03 1999
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:27:03 -0400
Reply-To: Ken Williams <jkwilli2@UNITY.NCSU.EDU>
From: Ken Williams <jkwilli2@UNITY.NCSU.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19990408122508.A16066@tk212017114173.teleweb.at>
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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