DST: change oddities commence, this is not a Lotus issue, even though Notes is affected big
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Start expecting tons of postings for me for a while as our massive DST change takes place. This posting today from a fellow co-worker (Ron Heller at Washington University for proper credit) had me in shock for one of our customers that has a heavy date/time application: Has anyone noticed that the "patched" systems also incorrectly "fix" the past?
At least on a Windows system (Notes 6.x client). If your client and server have been patched, try creating (or updating) a Calendar entry for, say, November 1, 2006. You'll notice the time is incorrectly set to Daylight Saving time, which was not the case in 2006.
I don't know if this is a bug with Microsoft's patch, or IBM's implementation in Notes/Domino, but this can create havoc on applications with historical data.
Once again, this is a local Microsoft issue since it can only read one time zone at a time, not Lotus Notes. But be warned...
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On Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 by Chris Miller
