[fpc-devel] Problem with Now() and time changed by ntpd

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> This is something that normally doesn't happen unless you move your system
>> from one timezone to another or during system setup
>
> In many countries the time zone changes 2 times a year because of the
> summer time.

No, this is DST: Daylight Saving Time.

The indication of the use of DST is included in the timezone information
(but currently not correctly applied by FPC's runtime).

The timezone itself does not change, unless you physically move 
the machine from, say, Belgium to Russia.

Michael.