[p4] Daylight Savings Time Changes Affecting Perforce Servers

[Ken Williams]

On 2/20/07 3:06 PM, "LockeyD at lakeviewtech.com" <LockeyD at lakeviewtech.com>
wrote:

> We are running this version of the server: Server version:
> P4D/NTX86/2006.1/109255 (2006/10/17), on Windows of course.
> 
> With the change in Daylight Saving Time  this year our IT staff is
> concerned there may be unknown issues with DST and the perforce server.
> 
> I searched the archive and the web-site, can anyone tell me anything to be
> concerned about with the Perforce server and DST?

I have no special knowledge about it, but I would be very surprised if any
DST logic were actually built into p4d.  It probably gets all its time
information from system calls like localtime(3).  So if you update the
server OS itself, and its associated TZ databases, you should probably be
fine.

 -Ken