[Quickfix-developers] Session Start and end Times

[Steinberg, J. <Jon...@bo...>]

Could someone please clarify the session start and end times?

 

I am using c# (.Net framework 1.1, VS2003)  with the quickfix .net
wrappers 

 

I need to have a session shut down at 9PM for system maintenance, and
start up again at Midnight. I am in US Eastern time (GMT-5).

According to the documentation, the session start and end times are UTC,
so it seems that the session settings should be

 
        StartTime=05:00:00
        EndTime=02:00:00

 

However, in the event logs , at 9PM,  I see  a continuous stream of

 

Disconnecting

Socket Error

Connecting to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX on port YYYY

Connection succeeded

Disconnecting, etc

 

 

Until the session I am connecting to goes down at 10:30 when I see

 

Connecting to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX on port YYYY

Connection failed

 

repeated until 5:30 Am when the remote session goes up, and I connect
again.

 

Should this be happening? Are the event logs misleading or is the
session still active?

 

Another question is that when I try to test the session start and end
time behavior locally, with an acceptor and initiator both running on my
machine , I am setting the session start and end time as (for example,
to start at 1:40 PM) 

 

StartTime=18:40:00

EndTime=23:00:00

 

The session is idle until 1:40 as expected, but then cannot connect at
that time - I see

 

Created session

Connecting to localhost on port 6666

Connection succeeded

Disconnecting

Socket Error  etc. etc.

 

in the event logs. If I change the session start time to prior to the
current time (e.g. 10:00:00) and restart the session it works fine.

I would be grateful if someone can explain this behavior or point me to
the explanation. I could not find anything in the documentation.

 

Thanks

 

Jonathan Steinberg