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Re: [hobbit] is Hobbit ready for 2007 DST?

if it is UNIX time then it won't be a problem.
If local time is stored then used to calculate, it'd be a problem. If it is
only for display or history, it'd probably be ok.
Possible problem scenarios

  - duration for alerts could be wrong, if the event timestamp was
  recorded in local time.
  - ignore for a given number of hours when acknowledging an event, if
  the acknowledgment timestamp was stored in local time.


On 3/6/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik (at) hswn.dk> wrote: 

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:29:35AM -0500, Jerry Yu wrote:
> I didn't find any question asked about 2007 DST readiness for Hobbit on
the
> list. Should it be assumed it won't be problem at all? For one thing,
the
> scheduled downtime and such would be specific to local time.  Assume the
> underlying operating system has been patched and is ready to accommodate
2007
> DST changes in North America.

All time recorded in Hobbit uses either the Unix timestamp - which is
unaffected by DST changes - or the local time of some event which has
occurred (for history logging).

So I cannot see that there should be any problems, assuming your OS has
been updated to handle the new DST changes (usually, an update to your
timezone definition files).


Regards,
Henrik


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