Re: Telling if a given datetime is within the DST switchover

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 30/03/15 16:20, Larry Martell wrote:
>> The use case is that I have a server uptime reporting script and it
>> uses a database of times that the server was able to be pinged. If
>> there is no entry for a period it indicated the server was down. So on
>> March 29, running in London, it found no entries from 1am to 2am and
>> it reported the server was down for an hour, when in fact the period
>> from 1am to 2am did not exist because of the switch to summer time.
>
> If you are logging ANYTHING other than UTC then your reporting system is
> the problem. You DISPLAY times using the local time, and log everything
> using a clean UTC time.

I 100% agree with you, but this client does not do that. I have told
them they should, but they did not want to change.

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