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

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Larry Martell <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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Sounds like your only solution may be to convert to UTC to do the logic of
checking for gaps.

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