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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, zeljko wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have daemon which uses Now() for getting current date/time, but something is wrong, time on server changed from 03:00
> to 02:00 this weekend, but daemon's Now() was on old time ... until now ... I've just restarted it and now it applied
> new time.
> 
> fpc-2.4.5, centos 5.5 ....
> 
> Also this confirms something what happens sometimes when ntpd changes time ...
> 
> Any hints ? What to do ? Any workaround ?

It's probably the timezone information which is loaded only once at program startup.

This has been reported before, but no satisfying solution was found at the time.
re-reading this file at each now() would be extremely slowing.

Michael.