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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:56:22 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Jay Michlin" <jay.michlin@onstor.com>
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Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time in 2007
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DST and timezone considerations are strictly a local thing to each
machine, naturally.  NTP carries only UTC plus drift info.  So, to put
it simply, ntp has nothing to do with it.  Remember, timezone and DST
are simply modifications to the real time, done at the moment of
display.

Cheers,

a

 On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:56:04 -0800 "Jay Michlin"
<jay.michlin@onstor.com> wrote:

> Paul,
> 
> As I understand it, the NTP protocol is unconcerned with Daylight
> Saving Time. DST is a local consideration, and each software
> application must provide for it.
> 
> jay
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hammer 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:46 AM
> To: Jay Michlin; Sandrine Boulanger; Vikas Saini; Erik Palomba; Ken
> Renshaw
> Cc: Tim Gardner
> Subject: RE: Daylight Saving Time in 2007
> 
> Hi Jay,
>  
> I was curious in reviewing this spec about what happens if the
> customer is using an external NTP server? Does the time on the SSC
> override the NTP servers time? Or do I not understand how this works?
>  
> Erik, please assign this area to someone to write the test cases,
> should test going forward and going backward. 
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> -Paul
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Jay Michlin
> Sent: Tue 12/5/2006 2:03 PM
> To: Paul Hammer; Sandrine Boulanger; Vikas Saini; Erik Palomba; Ken
> Renshaw
> Cc: Tim Gardner
> Subject: FW: Daylight Saving Time in 2007
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Erik, Vikas, Sandrine, Ken and Paul,
> 
> It was my error in failing to include you on the email discussing
> this. For your reference, it's below. And I apologize.
> 
> jay
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Michlin
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 6:29 PM
> To: Carl Ciengi
> Cc: Caeli Collins; Jerry Lopatin; Narayan Venkat; Andy Sharp; Tim
> Gardner; Jonathan Goldick
> Subject: Daylight Saving Time in 2007
> 
> Hello Carl,
> 
> Your customer, Motorola, raised the question of Daylight Saving Time
> in 2007 a few weeks ago. The issue is that the U.S. Congress changed
> the date for commencing DST beginning in 2007, and software needs to
> be cognizant.
> 
> It turns out that our software needed only slight modification to
> account for this, and the revision will ship in our Release 2.2,
> approximately January 15. The release will be backward compatible with
> existing releases.
> 
> We did not produce a marketing-oriented document, but in case you are
> interested, I've attached our internal functional spec from
> Engineering. If you look at it, you will see that the update for this
> was rather minor, but nonetheless worthwhile, so thanks for being the
> first to alert us.
> 
> If you have questions or comments, please let me know.
> 
> jay
> 
> 
