[MRBS-general] UK BST DST Issue

[Mark P. <mar...@pe...>]

I am UK based. We make a DST change from GMT to BST (British Summer Time,
spring and autumn...)

After change to BST last saturday night (26-03-11) bookings within the BST
period *showed* as one hour later (ie a 9.00am start time showed as
10.00am).
I upgraded MRBS upgraded as a result (v 1.2.1 is from 2003, I am a longtime
happy user!).

1.4.6 has a php variable for getting Daylight Saving Time correct. $timezone
= "Europe/London"; didn't appear to work; it results in the BST entries
still being an hour out. (GMT, winter ones unnafected).

However $timezone = "GMT"; *appears* to solve the issue.

Sent this Q to my webhost: Is there anything I should know about the way
time is configured on your servers that would confirm that this is an
appropriate solution?

Obviously I am concerned about things running smoothly with future DST time
changes...

Is it possible that our BST times are not really set right? If so we should
consider using the correct timezone and running a script to correct the BST
entries perhaps? Not sure why this would have been highlighted now though,
it certainly hasn't been an issue each DST change??

Thanks for any insights, revmarkp

thecrossing.co.uk/bookings