Daylight saving time begins

[Bunkermaster]

Hi all,

as most opf you know, daylight saving time begins. I am curious, do you change time on your servers or do you let them run untouched with a function taking care of time change?

PS : If you forgot to change time this sunday in northern america or last one if in europe, do it NOW

[hermand]

I use a function, mainly cos my "tech support" is about as useful as a monkey with no arms! (Good service though 🙂)

[_SuperString]

I had a slight problem with this, some Servers have DST on and some have it off - and my apps have to run on all!!

I had to change one part to this

$sunday = strtotime("Last Sunday GMT");
$ar = localtime(time(),true);
if ($ar['tm_isdst']) {
    $sunday += 3600;
}

as the function strtotime("Last Sunday GMT") would return Last Friday on some Servers and worked fine on others.

There may well have been a simpler solution, there usualy is - but this at least works.

[Weedpacket]

On Linux servers you'd often find a directory /usr/share/timezoneinfo which contains a buncha different timezones and DST rules. Creating a symbolic /etc/timezone to the appropriate one of these files will set the server's local time (assuming that the server's internal clock is calibrated to UTC).

For details, just found this

As for Windows servers, well... there's probably a copy of tzedit floating around on the install CD somewhere..

And never need to faff around with daylight saving again (or at least, not until the server moves to a different timezone, or the local Powers that Be redefine DST).

I don't remember - how do you expect me to remember something that happened three weeks ago?