[p4] Daylight Savings Time Changes Affecting Perforce Servers

[Mark Allender]

I know this is late, but I just got done talking with Perforce support.  We
applied the DST patches from Microsoft to our Perforce server, and the next
"p4 verify" that I did found MD5 checksum inconsistencies with head versions
of a bunch of ktext files (not sure if it was _all_ ktext files in my depots
or not).  Support reported that others have had this problem as well.  I
think that the ktext files had to be last touched during a non-DST
timeframe.

To my knowledge, the files are fine.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Ken Williams
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 4:27 PM
> To: LockeyD at lakeviewtech.com; Perforce list
> Subject: Re: [p4] Daylight Savings Time Changes Affecting 
> Perforce Servers
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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
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