[Quickfix-users] Session reset

[Brian E. <azz...@ya...>]

We are having a problem with QuickFIX session start/end times.

We currently have the following values set in our QUICKFIX.INI file:

StartDay=Friday
StartTime=16:50:00
EndDay=Friday
EndTime=16:45:00

As I understand the documentation, this should set up a weeklong
session, starting on Friday 16:50 UTC and ending the next Friday at
16:45 UTC.

However, when we tested this, we had our session reset on Friday at
exactly 00:00 local time (Chicago). The "active" session had started on
Monday at 18:47:47 UTC (we brought up our app in "mid-session" and had
let it run continuously since then).

I looked at the Session and SessionTime code (specifically the
checkSessionTime and isSameSession/isSessionTime methods) and I didn't
see anything obviously wrong (tried to run it in my head).

Has anyone seen this type of error before? Any help would be much
appreciated.

- Brian Erst

p.s. We are considering just moving to a Saturday-Saturday session. Is
StartTime/EndTime required, or would it default to 00:00 UTC on
Saturday?