[fpc-devel] Problem with Now() and time changed by ntpd
Hans-Peter Diettrich
DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Tue Nov 1 15:08:11 CET 2011
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb:
> 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.
Just in those countries (Germany...) it would be better to log UTC
values, with no overlapping or skipped hours.
But the difference between UTC and local time is low in western Europe,
in other countries UTC timestamps may look strange.
DoDi
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