[SourceJammer-devel] Argh I hate SJ and DST!

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

So the clocks go forward here in the UK, and again the SJ server thinks 
-all- of my local files are out of date.

This is such a pain, we have to track it down. How can I help?

My clients are setup for GMT, with "automatically adjust for DST" turned on.

The server is setup exactly the same.

All boxes show the same time.

I'm guessing there is a problem with some Time/Calendar usage in SJ 
server or client not using methods that take the timezone into account 
properly.

Date.getTime() returns UTC. This does not include DST adjustments. So I 
suspect in some places SJ is using this UTC value with DST adjusted 
(Calendar.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET) + Calendar.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET)) 
and in others just the ZONE_OFFSET

...or SJ is never doing timezone adjustments.

Anyway, it's getting confused along these lines.

Cheers


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