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RE: MS Visual C++ daylight saving time bug


From: TTaylor
Subject: RE: MS Visual C++ daylight saving time bug
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:27:59 -0400

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If your cvs working directory is on an NT File System (NTFS)
partition, the problem may have been caused by the way windows stores
times for events in the system event log and files in the NTFS. For
details, see:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q129/5/74.asp

- - Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandre Parenteau [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:04 AM
> To: David L. Martin; info-cvs
> Subject: Re: MS Visual C++ daylight saving time bug
> 
> 
> David and All,
> 
> For WinCvs, we use Visual C++ 6.0 SP 4 and we called tzset. I 
> didn't get any
> problem but I'm not using cvsnt.
> 
> Regards,
> alex.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David L. Martin" <address@hidden>
> To: "info-cvs" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Alexandre Parenteau" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 8:31 AM
> Subject: MS Visual C++ daylight saving time bug
> 
> 
> > All,
> >
> > I've seen a problem with WinCVS 1.2 since the daylight saving
> > time switch on 4/1/01 which I believe is due to the so-called
> > "April Fool's 2001 Bug" in the Visual C++ runtime library.
> >
> > This may be old news to some, but I was caught off-guard by it.
> > Basically, any calls to ctime() or asctime() will result in a
> > time uncorrected for daylight saving time for the period 4/1-4/8
> > for the year 2001 for some older versions of msvcrt.dll
> >
> > This was apparently fixed in Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 3.
> >
> > http://www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=9327
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/headlines/2001.asp
> >
> > Regards,
> > David Martin
> >
> >
> 
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