Re: [Quickfix-developers] Session Start and end Times

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

What version of QuickFIX?

--oren

Steinberg, Jonathan wrote:

> 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
>