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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Tomas Hajny wrote:

> On Tue, November 1, 2011 12:49, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
>>>
>>> Correct (I had checked as well), but the only purpose that serves
>>> is to check whether the system timezone info has changed.
>>>
>>> This is something that normally doesn't happen unless you move your
>>> system from one timezone to another or during system setup, so I
>>> question the desirability of this check.
>>
>> E.g. the US DST times have changed in the very recent past. Updates can
>> also
>> update timezone data.
>
> The definitions changed just now for Russia (well, the change was
> effective since the last weekend). I also believe that it isn't a
> completely theoretical case. It shouldn't be necessary to perform this
> kind of check more often than once a day though (the definition doesn't
> change on the same day since which it should be effective).

I was also thinking along these lines.

Michael.